Fantasy proneness, but not self-reported trauma is related to DRM performance of women reporting recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 602-612

  Geraerts, Elke ^a   Smeets, Elke ^a   Jelicic, Marko ^a   Van Heerden, Jaap ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Dissociation; DRM task; False memories; Fantasy proneness; Recovered memories; Repressed memories

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATION; EXPERIENCE; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MEMORY; RECALL; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRESSION;

EID: 23644453285     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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