Autobiographical Memory and Imagining Future Personal Events: Event Specificity and Symptoms of Depression and Stress Following Exposure to an Analogue Trauma

Stress and Health

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 419-431

  Belcher, Jessica ^a   Kangas, Maria ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

autobiographical memory; future events; trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; EPISODIC MEMORY; IMAGINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949314729     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2567     Document Type: Article

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