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Recollecting events associated with victimization.

R K Guenther1, C Frey

  • 1Department of Psychology, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN 55104.

Psychological Reports
|August 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Repressors, individuals with high social desirability and low anxiety, reconstruct traumatic memories with positive details. This memory bias occurs specifically when recalling victimization experiences, not general information.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Trauma Studies
  • Memory Research

Background:

  • Repressors exhibit distinct coping mechanisms for distressing information.
  • Understanding memory biases in trauma recall is crucial for therapeutic interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate memory reconstruction in repressors following exposure to a victimization narrative.
  • To determine if personality traits influence the accuracy and valence of memory recall.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed personality scales (social desirability, anxiety).
  • Subjects read a story, with some led to believe it involved sexual abuse.
  • Memory recall was assessed via a multiple-choice test a week later.

Main Results:

  • Repressors showed a higher proportion of positive than negative errors in memory recall for the sexual abuse narrative.
  • No significant difference in correct item recall was observed between repressors and nonrepressors.
  • The memory bias was specific to the victimization context.

Conclusions:

  • Repressors may employ positive reconstruction to mitigate the negative emotional impact of victimization memories.
  • Memory recall quantity is not affected, but the qualitative nature of recall is altered in repressors.
  • Findings suggest a defense mechanism involving positive memory embellishment in response to trauma.

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