ArticleMemory (Hove, England)2016
Adolescent over-general memory, life events and mental health outcomes: Findings from a UK cohort study.
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- Remembering the bad times: Autobiographical memory fluency, specificity, and fading affect bias in adolescents at clinical risk of affective disorder.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Visualization, Interaction and Evaluation, and Memory: How Social Media Parenting Practices Mediate the Relationship Between Authoritative Parenting and Mental Health of Young Adult.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Article
- Early childhood deprivation and the impact of negative life events on mental health in later life: a test of the stress sensitization hypothesis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2020Article
- The cross-sectional and longitudinal relationship between overgeneral autobiographical memory and adolescent depression in a UK population-based cohort.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- Examining the relationship between stressful life events and overgeneral autobiographical memory in adolescents at high familial risk of depression.Memory (Hove, England) · 2019Article
- Do Overgeneral Autobiographical Memories Predict Increased Psychopathological Symptoms in Community Youth? A 3-Year Longitudinal Investigation.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2018Article
- Examining reward-seeking, negative self-beliefs and over-general autobiographical memory as mechanisms of change in classroom prevention programs for adolescent depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2015Article
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Abstract
Previous research suggesting that over-general memory (OGM) may moderate the effect of life events on depressive symptoms and suicidality has sampled older adolescents or adults, or younger adolescents in high-risk populations, and has been conducted over relatively short follow-up periods. The authors examined the relationship between OGM at age 13 and life events and mental health outcomes (depression, self-harm, suicidal ideation and planning) at age 16 years within a sample of 5792 adolescents participating in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), approximately 3800 of whom had also provided data on depression and self-harm. There was no clear evidence of either direct or interactive effects of OGM at age 13 on levels of depression at age 16. Similarly there was no clear evidence of either direct or interactive effects of OGM on suicidal ideation and self-harm. Although there was some evidence that over-general autobiographical memory was associated with reduced risk of suicidal planning and increased risk of self-harm, these associations were absent when confounding variables were taken into account. The findings imply that although OGM is a marker of vulnerability to depression and related psychopathology in high-risk groups, this cannot be assumed to generalise to whole populations.
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