Relationship between subjective properties associated with remembering autobiographical episodic memories, and emotion: Investigation by the subjective properties questionnaire of autobiographical memory

摘要

This study was desihgned to revise the subjective properties questionnaire of autobiographical memory (Sekiguchi, 2011)(Study 1), and investigated the subjective properties of emotional autobiographical episodes by the revised one(Study 2), and the relationship to the individual differences of depressive mood, subjective well-being and emotion regulation(Study 3). The result of Study 1 revealed that exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of 16 items of the state during recollection showed five factor structures (perceptual vividness/verbal details / sense of re-experience /emotional intensity/emotional valence). The result of Study 2 revealed that the comparison of subjective properties during recollection of positive, negative and neutral events showed that almost all properties of positive events were significantly higher than thoseof negative or neutral events. The result of Study 3 revealed as follows. 1) The perceptual vividness, verbal details and emotional intensity elicited by the individuals with high subjective well-being were higher than those with low subjective well-being. 2) The verbal details of elicited by the individuals with low depressive mood were higher than those with high depressive mood. 3)The Individuals using suppressive strategy or reappraisal strategy of emotion regulation showed no significant differences in any properties of autobiographical memories.