Examining the relationship between stressful life events and overgeneral autobiographical memory in adolescents at high familial risk of depression.

ABSTRACT: Difficulty remembering specific events from the personal past, known as overgeneral autobiographical memory (AM), may be a marker of vulnerability to adolescent depression but little is known about how overgeneral AM arises in this age group. Stressful life events (SLEs) are strongly implicated in the onset of depression and are considered important in theoretical work on AM. We investigated whether exposure to lifetime and recent SLEs contributed to the development of overgeneral AM in a sample of adolescents at high familial risk of depression (n = 257) and examined the effects of gender and memory valence. Whether AM mediated the relationship between SLEs and MDD was also assessed. Exposure to a higher number of lifetime SLEs was associated with an increase in specific AMs. Associations

SUBMITTER: Warne N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343111 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature