Retrospective Reporting of Childhood Adversity: Issues in Assessing Long-Term Recall

Maughan, Barbara; Rutter, Michael

doi:10.1521/pedi.1997.11.1.19

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Retrospective Reporting of Childhood Adversity: Issues in Assessing Long-Term Recall

Maughan, Barbara, Rutter, Michael·1997·Journal of Personality Disorders

DOI 10.1521/pedi.1997.11.1.19

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Much evidence for associations between adverse experiences in childhood and personality disorder in adult life comes from retrospective accounts. This raises important questions over the reliability and validity of long-term recall. The strengths and limitations of different methods for assessing the accuracy and stability of retrospective reports are discussed. Evidence from cognitive psychology on memory and memory processes, and on the phenomenon of infantile amnesia, provides important background for assessing issues more specific to recall in studies of risk for psychopathology. Here, topics of particular concern include: memory for traumatic early experience; the effects of mood state and symptomatology on recall; recovered or false memories; and the implications of mental representations of early experience for understanding psychopathology. Current evidence suggests that while adequately reliable accounts of many early experiences can be gained using appropriate techniques, further methodological studies are needed, and investigations using retrospective methods would be wise to include corroborative evidence whenever feasible.

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Authors: Maughan, B., & Rutter, M.
ORCID: Maughan, Barbara
Rutter, Michael
Venue: Journal of Personality Disorders
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 1997-03
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 19-33
ISSN: 0885-579X (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.1997.11.1.19
OpenAlex: W2113427371
Cited by: 292
References: 2
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 3.17
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Personality Disorders (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
Keywords: childhood adversity, retrospective recall, long-term memory, memory reliability, infantile amnesia, traumatic memory, false memory, recovered memory, personality disorders, psychopathology risk, corroborative evidence
MeSH terms: Adult, Child, Psychology, Child, Child, Preschool, Humans, Memory, Personality Disorders, Mental Recall, Stress, Psychological, Time Factors, Reproducibility of Results

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