بررسي عملكرد افراد مبتلا به PTSD ناشي از جنگ در حافظه شرح حال رويدادي

Examining the Relation between Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms caused by War and Autobiographical Memory

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and reduced autobiographical memory specificity. Two samples of privates with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a sample of healthy control completed the AMT followed by IES-R, translated versions of the BDI, BAI and WAIS-R. Results revealed that reduced episodic specificity, as measured by a standard cue word task, is associated with increased posttraumatic stress in traumatized samples and that degree of impairment was positively associated with levels of intrusion, avoidance and hyper arousal of the trauma. The data is discussed in terms of compromised access to specific autobiographical material in distressed trauma survivors reflecting a process of affect regulation.