Reduced goal specificity is associated with reduced memory specificity in depressed adults

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 163-171

  Belcher, Jessica ^a   Kangas, Maria ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Depression; Future thinking; Goals; Imagination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY TEST; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUTURE IMAGINING TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890437652     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2013.807776     Document Type: Article

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