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Coping with threat and memory for ambiguous information: testing the repressive discontinuity hypothesis.

Michael Hock1, Heinz Walter Krohne

  • 1Psychologisches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Mainz, Germany. hock@psych.uni-mainz.de

Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
|April 1, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Repressers showed weak memory for threat implications of ambiguous stimuli, while sensitizers and anxious individuals showed a bias toward threat. Coping styles significantly influenced memory, especially with delayed testing.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychological Science

Background:

  • Individual differences in coping dispositions, such as repression, sensitization, and nondefensiveness, influence how people process information.
  • Anxiety levels are also known to affect cognitive processing, particularly in relation to threat-related stimuli.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how coping dispositions and anxiety impact the encoding and memory of ambiguous threat-related stimuli.
  • To examine the effects of immediate versus delayed memory testing on the representation of these stimuli.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted, involving participants with varying coping dispositions (repression, sensitization, nondefensiveness) and anxiety levels.
  • Participants encoded ambiguous threat-related stimuli, with memory tested either shortly after encoding (Study 1) or after a delay (Study 2).

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Main Results:

  • Repressers exhibited mixed affective reactions and weak memory for threatening implications of ambiguous stimuli.
  • Sensitizers and anxious individuals displayed a processing bias favoring threatening implications.
  • The influence of coping dispositions on memory was more pronounced in delayed testing conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Coping dispositions play a significant role in memory representation of ambiguous threat stimuli, particularly over time.
  • Anxiety's influence on memory for these stimuli was found to be weak in these studies.
  • An expectancy-based model is proposed to explain individual differences in processing ambiguous stimuli.