Fogarty S J, Hemsley D R
Br J Psychiatry. 1983 Mar;142:232-7. doi: 10.1192/bjp.142.3.232.
A group of depressed patients and a group of normal subjects were assessed on two occasions. On each they were required to recall past real life experiences associated with a series of stimulus words. Subjects were subsequently required to rate each experience for happiness and pleasantness. The depressives showed an increased probability of recalling sad memories; within this group there was a significant relationship between severity of depressed mood and the percentage of sad memories recalled. The extent of reduction in depressed mood from occasion 1 to occasion 2 was significantly related to the increase in accessibility of happy memories and the decrease in recall of sad memories. For those patients who improved between the two occasions there was a significant reduction in the probability of recall of a very unhappy memory. The results extend the previous findings on the effect of mood state on the accessibility of memories of differing affective tone. The findings are discussed in terms of context specific encoding and retrieval.
对一组抑郁症患者和一组正常受试者进行了两次评估。每次评估时，要求他们回忆与一系列刺激词相关的过去真实生活经历。随后，要求受试者对每次经历的幸福程度和愉悦程度进行评分。抑郁症患者回忆悲伤记忆的可能性增加；在这组患者中，抑郁情绪的严重程度与回忆起的悲伤记忆的百分比之间存在显著关系。从第一次评估到第二次评估，抑郁情绪的减轻程度与愉快记忆可及性的增加以及悲伤记忆回忆的减少显著相关。对于在两次评估之间病情有所改善的患者，回忆非常不愉快记忆的可能性显著降低。这些结果扩展了先前关于情绪状态对不同情感基调记忆可及性影响的研究发现。将根据特定情境的编码和检索来讨论这些发现。
