True and false memory with emotionally valenced words: Depression, trait anxiety and personality factors

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between false
memory and trait anxiety, depression and personality characteristics with
emotionally valenced material (positive, depression related, threat related and
neutral). Participants were 131 Middle East Technical University students. Four
groups (depressed, anxious, mixed and control) were formed in order to differentiate
the effects of trait anxiety and depression. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and
Trait Form of State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-I) were administered. In order to
measure false memory creation, a variant of Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM)
paradigm was used. It was hypothesized that the anxious group would produce more
false memories for threat related words as compared to other groups. In addition, the
depressed group was expected to display higher levels of false memory for
depression related words as compared to other groups. One-way MANOVA was
used to analyze the data. The results showed that there was a group difference only in
terms of threat related words’ accuracy. Also people were categorized as “low” and
“high” in the six personality characteristics as measured by Big Five Questionnaire.
It was hypothesized that people high in openness to experience would commit less
false memories as compared to people low in the trait. This was true for only positive
material. Further, other personality characteristics were analyzed in order to discover
the relationship between false memory and personality. The results were discussed in
terms of relevant literature.

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True and false memory with emotionally valenced words: Depression, trait anxiety and personality factors · 2007 · 132 sayfa.
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