The influence of induced dysphoria on autobiographical memory specificity and social problem solving : examining the role of executive function
Date
10/2023Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Negative mood induction leads to reductions in autobiographical memory specificity (AMS) and social problem-solving (SPS). The aim was to establish if executive function contributes to changes in AMS and SPS following negative mood induction. Forty-four participants (study 1) completed the autobiographical memory test and measures of executive function (letter & category fluency) before and after a positive or negative mood induction (MI). Forty participants (study 2) completed the means-end problem solving task (MEPS) and (letter & category) fluency tasks before and after a positive or negative MI. In study 1, participants exhibited impaired AMS and fluency performance following a sad MI. Decrease in memory specificity pre-to post-MI was related to reductions in happy mood and letter fluency. In study 2, participants exhibited poorer performance on the MEPS and fluency tasks following a sad MI. Decreases in the number of relevant solutions generated on the MEPS pre-to post-MI was linked to increases in sad mood and decreases in letter fluency. In both studies, the influence of mood became non-significant once the effect of executive function was accounted for, which suggests that changes in AMS and SPS in response to induced mood were related to concomitant changes in executive function.
Citation
Ridout , N , Dritschel , B , Morjaria , M & Yankey , C 2023 , ' The influence of induced dysphoria on autobiographical memory specificity and social problem solving : examining the role of executive function ' , Behaviour Research and Therapy , vol. 169 , 104404 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2023.104404
Publication
Behaviour Research and Therapy
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0005-7967Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Collections
Items in the St Andrews Research Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.