Depressed mood and early memories: some negative findings.

The study concerns the relation of scores on the Beck Depression Inventory and reports of memories for (a) the first three years of life and (b) ages 4 to 6 for a sample of 208 university undergraduates. While there was a tendency for the entire sample to characterize early memories as pleasant as opposed to unpleasant, no correlation was found between Beck scores and the tendency to characterize early memories as unpleasant.