RECALL OF EARLY EXPERIENCE AND THE REPRESSIVE COPING STYLE

Citation
Lb. Myers et Cr. Brewin, RECALL OF EARLY EXPERIENCE AND THE REPRESSIVE COPING STYLE, Journal of abnormal psychology, 103(2), 1994, pp. 288-292
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,"Psycology, Clinical
ISSN journal
0021843X
Volume
103
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
288 - 292
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-843X(1994)103:2<288:ROEEAT>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
We investigated recall of early experience and the repressive coping s tyle by testing hypotheses concerning restricted access to negative ch ildhood memories and eliciting accounts of quality of parenting receiv ed. Repressors free recalled fewer negative childhood memories than no nrepressors, and the age of first negative memory for repressors was o lder both in free recall and cued recall. Repressors also took longer to retrieve negative childhood memories but not positive memories. Rep ressors' accounts of their childhoods were more likely to be character ized by paternal antipathy and indifference, and they were less likely to report an emotionally or physically close relationship with their fathers.