Autobiographical memory specificity, psychopathology, depressed mood and the use of the Autobiographical Memory Test: A meta-analysis

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 731-743

  Van Vreeswijk, Michiel F ^a   De Wilde, Erik Jan ^b  

^a GGZ Delfland   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autobiographical Memory Test; Depression; Depressive mood; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY TEST; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1842637375     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(03)00194-3     Document Type: Article

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