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Mood, Memory, and Coping

其他書名	The Role of Positive Memories in Mood Repair
出版	Northwestern University, 1998
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=z5dxAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The aim of this investigation was to gain a better understanding of the role of memory and coping processes in the maintenance and recovery of sad moods. Group differences and the interrelation among these processes were examined in three studies. The first study was conducted in an attempt to replicate in a college sample Williams and his colleagues' (Williams, 1992; Williams & Broadbent, 1986; Williams & Dritschel, 1988; Williams & Scott, 1988) findings of differential memory specificity. In this study, depressed never depressed, and remitted depressed participants were compared with respect to their performance on the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT). Although the results of previous research on mood and memory were not replicated in this study, group differences obtained on self-reported coping measures were consistent with findings from previous studies. The goal of the second study was to examine effects of mood on recall and memory specificity in a nondepressed sample of individuals differing in their tendencies to ruminate, a potential vulnerability factor for depression. In this study, too, the groups did not differ on the memory variables in the manner predicted. Future studies using an improved task, clinical samples, and initial replication of past findings are needed. The third study was a test of the efficacy of thinking about positive memories on improving a negative mood. Low and high ruminators were compared on the effects on negative mood of thinking about either a specific-positive memory, a general-positive memory, or no memory. Although there were no group differences with respect to the effects of memory retrieval on mood, thinking about a positive memory while in a sad mood was generally more effective in reducing sadness than was not thinking about a positive memory. Understanding further the role of positive memories in mood repair is an important goal of future investigations.