The Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART): A Measure of Individual Differences in Autobiographical Memory.

ABSTRACT: We introduce the Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART) to examine individual differences in how well people think they remember personal events. The ART comprises seven theoretically motivated and empirically supported interrelated aspects of recollecting autobiographical memories: reliving, vividness, visual imagery, scene, narrative coherence, life-story relevance, and rehearsal. Desirable psychometric properties of the ART are established by confirmatory factor analyses demonstrating that items probing each of the seven components form well-defined, yet highly correlated, factors that are indicators of a single underlying second-order factor. The ART shows high test-retest reliability over delays averaging three weeks and correlates meaningfully with a test of different categories of

SUBMITTER: Berntsen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6836687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature