Troubled past: A critical psychometric assessment of the self-report Survey of Autobiographical Memory (SAM).

ABSTRACT: The Survey of Autobiographical Memory (SAM) was designed as an easy-to-administer measure of self-perceived autobiographical memory (AM) recollection capacity. We provide a comprehensive psychometric evaluation of the SAM in younger and older adults. First, we evaluated the reliability of the SAM as a measure of self-perceived recollective capacity. Next, we tested whether the SAM was a valid measure of episodic and autobiographical memory performance, as assessed with widely used performance-based measures. Finally, we investigated associations between the SAM, cognitive measures and self-reported assessments of psychological functioning. The SAM demonstrated reliability as a self-report measure of perceived recollective capacity. High internal consistency was observed across subscales, w

SUBMITTER: Setton R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8692492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature