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Functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and self-defining memories in people with cancer diagnosis.
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- Specificity and integration of meaning in self-defining memories of breast cancer survivors: clinical reflections to promote a narrative identity integration.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- The Role and Function of Autobiographical Memory Narratives during the Emotional Processing of Breast Cancer Treatment: An Empirically-Derived Memory Coding System.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The impact of breast cancer on social cognition in female Colombian patients.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Breast Cancer Survivors' Motivation to Participate in a Tailored Physical and Psychological Intervention: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Impact of Unsupportive Social Support on the Injured Self in Breast Cancer Patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Injured Self: Autobiographical Memory, Self-Concept, and Mental Health Risk in Breast Cancer Survivors.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Transformative process in narratives of bodily autobiographical memories: A psychological clinical group intervention with breast cancer survivors.Health psychology openArticle
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Abstract
objectivesCognitive and emotional disturbances have been associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Autobiographical memory is one of the specific cognitive processes affected during this disease. The current study had two main aims: (1) to compare the functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and its related variables (executive functioning, depression and perceived stress) in a group of persons with cancer and a control group; and (2) to analyze whether the experience of cancer evolved into a self-defining memory in the sample of participants diagnosed with this disease.
methodThe study sample comprised 62 participants, 31 in the group with a cancer diagnosis and 31 in the control group. Autobiographical memory specificity, executive functions, depression, stress and self-defining memory were evaluated in the current study.
resultsDepressive symptomatology and reduced executive functioning, but not perceived stress levels, are related and are predictors of autobiographical memory specificity. In addition, the identified characteristics of the self-defining memories were associated with the cancer experience as a threat to physical integrity and an awareness of the meaning of life.
conclusionThis emerging research line is especially important in view of its possible impacts on patients' well-being, due to the importance of psychological processes in cancer disease.
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