Making sense of traumatic memories: Memory qualities and psychological symptoms in emerging adults with and without abuse histories

Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-142

  Greenhoot, Andrea Follmer ^a   Sun, Shengkai ^a   Bunnell, Sarah L ^b   Lindboe, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Meaning making; Narrative; Post traumatic stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD ABUSE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; THINKING;

EID: 84873688258     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2012.712975     Document Type: Article

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