Autobiographical memory impairments as a transdiagnostic feature of mental illness: A meta-analytic review of investigations into autobiographical memory specificity and overgenerality among people with psychiatric diagnoses.
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= 712, 95% CI [0.524, 0.900], memories than diagnoses-free people. The size of these effects did not differ between diagnostic groups. There were no consistent moderators of effect size heterogeneity; effect sizes were not explained by methodological factors such as cue valence or demographic variables such as participants' age or between-group differences in process variables (e.g., rumination). Deficits in autobiographical memory retrieval may be a transdiagnostic factor, but further research in underrepresented diagnostic groups, and with novel experimental manipulations of encoding and retrieval processes, is warranted before full transdiagnosticity and the processes underlying reduced specificity/overgenerality can be established. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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Individuals with psychiatric diagnoses remember fewer specific and more general memories compared to individuals without a psychiatric diagnosis (overgeneral memory).
“On the other hand, it has been observed that individuals with psychiatric diagnoses remember fewer specific and more general memories compared to individuals without a psychiatric diagnosis (overgeneral memory; for a meta-analysis, see Barry et al., 2021).”
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- Authors
- Barry, T. J., Hallford, D. J., & Takano, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Deakin University (AU)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Barry, Tom J.
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 2021-10
- Volume
- 147
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1054-1074
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W4200560827
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 15.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure (University of Bath) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Deakin Research Online (Deakin University) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Open Science Framework
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- autobiographical memory, transdiagnostic factors, memory specificity, memory retrieval deficits, mental illness, rumination
- MeSH terms
- Anxiety Disorders, Major Depressive Disorder, Humans, Mental Recall, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Memory, Episodic
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