Junior Individual Autobiographical Memory Of Depression

In recent years,a growing number of psychologists involved in autobiographical memory research. Clinical psychology researchers have found that people with depression and mood disorders who have autobiographical memory exists the phenomenon of over-generalization. In memory tests, patients can not describe the specific events required memory, only to make an abstract or a summary of the types of memory, which greatly reduces the ability to solve problems in patients, but also weakened their desire and confidence to solve problems, damage their normal social function.Previous literature is to explore more adult depression, few minors of autobiographical memory. Since junior high school students also less mature psychological development can not regulate their emotions well, more volatile, coupled with the impact of academic pressure can easily lead to anxiety and depression so that the negative emotions, negative emotions in a long time is easy with depressive tendencies, so the above factors, the study selected from the junior individual predisposition to depression as subjects, depressed individuals to explore whether there is general autobiographical memory tendency; emotion on autobiographical memory in depressed individuals would affect the generalization; When tested in a negative mood, different ways of responding to autobiographical memories of the impact of how generalization.Experiment is divided into three parts: first experiment of depression characteristics of individual autobiographical memory; the second experiment of emotion on autobiographical memory in depressed individuals would affect the generalization of the students of different levels of depression are different, that the negative emotions of would increase the depressed students in Autobiographical Memory and the degree of generalization, on this basis leads to three experiments of this study, when the depressed individual in a negative emotional experience, the use of Nolen-Hoeksema, who founded the 45 items of distraction and contemplation response task , so that these items were tested to fully imagine 8 minutes, and then the autobiographical memory test, explore the distraction and contemplation on the subject's emotional reactions and autobiographical memory. The results showed that: (1) depression characteristics of autobiographical memories affect generalization. And compared with normal individuals, depressed individuals obviously autobiographical memory general tendency. (2) words of different emotional cues generalization of Autobiographical Memory, positive clues to the word clues to the specific memory scores than the negative points I remember the specific words, that the broad negative memories than positive memories of generalization is more evident. (3) the impact of different emotional states is the degree of generalization of memory, in a positive mood state, the general low level of negative emotional state in a high degree of generalization; negative generalization of memory is relatively stable, not transient emotional effects. (4) depression and autobiographical memory in the individual emotional impact of generalization, in a positive mood state, reduce the degree of generalization; in a negative emotional state, the two groups of depressed individuals Autobiographical Memory substantial increase in the degree of generalization. Autobiographical memory in normal individuals from the emotional impact of generalization. (5) distracting responses improved to some extent, the broad depression degree of personal memory, and mild depression being of the individual is especially effective to improve memory; contemplative reaction the broad depression of the individual memory of little effect, only increasing a moderate depression and memory of individual negative generalization.