Functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and self-defining memories in people with cancer diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Cognitive and emotional disturbances have been associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Autobiographical memory is one of the specific cognitive processes affected during this disease. The current study had two main aims: (1) to compare the functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and its related variables (executive functioning, depression and perceived stress) in a group of persons with cancer and a control group; and (2) to analyze whether the experience of cancer evolved into a self-defining memory in the sample of participants diagnosed with this disease.

Method

The study sample comprised 62 participants, 31 in the group with a cancer diagnosis and 31 in the control group. Autobiographical memory specificity, executive functions, depre

SUBMITTER: Nieto M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6925954 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature