Characteristics of Memories for Traumatic and Nontraumatic Birth

Autor/inn/en	Crawley, Rosalind; Wilkie, Stephanie; Gamble, Jenny; Creedy, Debra K.; Fenwick, Jenny; Cockburn, Nicola; Ayers, Susan
Titel	Characteristics of Memories for Traumatic and Nontraumatic Birth
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32 (2018) 5, S.584-591 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Crawley, Rosalind)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3438
Schlagwörter	Memory; Trauma; Recall (Psychology); Females; Birth; Emotional Response; Cognitive Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Abberufung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Geburt; Emotionales Verhalten; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Evidence for memory characteristic differences between trauma and other memories in non-clinical samples is inconsistent. However, trauma is frequently confounded with the event recalled. This study compares trauma and nontrauma memories for the "same event," childbirth, in a non-clinical sample of 285 women 4-6 weeks after birth. None of the women met diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder. Traumatic birth, defined by the DSM-5 event criterion, was reported by 100 women. The ratings of some memory characteristics did not differ between memories for traumatic and nontraumatic birth: All were rated highly coherent and central to women's lives, with moderate sensory memory. However, women who experienced traumatic births reported more involuntary recall, reliving, and negative/mixed emotions. Thus, trauma memories differed from nontrauma memories. In this non-clinical sample, this is likely to be due to "encoding" during trauma rather than the distinctive memory profile for memories retrieved by those experiencing trauma symptoms. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01