A Relação entre Eventos Adversos na Infância, Memória Autobiográfica e Sintomas Psiquiátricos

Abstract

Several studies have already been carried out on adverse childhood events (ACE) since the beginning of this field of research in 1998, such as those aimed at understanding their effects on mental health and others on impacts on the functioning of autobiographical memory (AM). Despite this, few studies have linked these three variables using rejection cues or have sought to define the role that psychiatric symptoms (PS) have on the relationship between IAS and AM. Thus, this research aimed to investigate the relationship of ACE, MA of adults with positive, negative and rejection words and SP. This was a correlational, descriptive and crosssectional study with a sample of 71 participants using the Autobiographical Memory Test (TMA), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (QUESI) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS21) online. As main results, individuals with EAI showed a greater impairment for memories associated with rejection and, specifically, individuals with emotional abuse showed, through Pearson's bivariate correlation, a significant, positive and mild correlation with the specificity of AM for rejection (r (71)=0.276 , p=0.030), but when controlling for the DASS21 factors, this correlation became moderate (r (71)=0.316, p=0.015). These results seem to confirm what the CaR-FA-X model, the main one to explain specificity deficits in AM, points out, that experiencing AEI is related to damage in AM, but in relation to emotional abuse, there is probably a different pattern that could be explained given that these individuals have greater sensitivity to rejection (SR) which would lead to a privilege in the processing of stimuli associated with rejection.