Autobiographical Memory in non-depressed and depressed adolescent boys, with versus without substance abuse disorder

moradi, alireza; Bigham, Elahe; Ramezani, Valiolah; Yaryari, Fereydoon

Volume 3, Issue 3 (11-2009) 2009, 3(3): 15-24 | Back to browse issues page

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moradi A, Bigham E, Ramezani V, Yaryari F. Autobiographical Memory in non-depressed and depressed adolescent boys, with versus without substance abuse disorder. Journal title 2009; 3 (3) :15-24
URL: http://rph.khu.ac.ir/article-1-112-en.html

Autobiographical Memory in non-depressed and depressed adolescent boys, with versus without substance abuse disorder

Alireza Moradi

¹, Elahe Bigham

, Valiolah Ramezani

, Fereydoon Yaryari

1- , moradi90@yahoo.com

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The main aim of this study was to investigate the Overgenerality of Autobiographical Memory among the adolescent boys in Kermanshah,Iran . A sample of 76 Kemanshahian adolescents (25 non-depressed and 50 depressed adolescent boys,25 with substance abuse disorder and 25 without substance abuse disorder) were investigated. To evaluate autobiographical memory specificity, a standard AMT (Autobiographical Memory Test), developed by Williams and Broadbent (1986), was used. To analyze the data, the Mann-Whitney U test was used. The results indicated that depressed adolescent boys without substance abuse disorder had high scores in Overgenerality of autobiographical memory than non-depressed group depressed adolescents with substance abuse disorder had high scores in Overgenerality of autobiographical memory than non-depressed group and depressed adolescents without substance abuse disorder had high scores in Over generality of autobiographical memory than depressed adolescents with substance abuse disorder.

Keywords: depression, autobiographical memory, substance abuse disorder, Adolescent

Type of Study: Research |
Accepted: 2009/11/15 | Published: 2009/11/15