Daily-level associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and reactions to retrieving positive autobiographical memories

AA Contractor, DC Slavish, ML Straup… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2024 - Elsevier
Trauma survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report difficulties accessing and
describing positive memories. To understand these patterns, we examined daily-level …

Relations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and positive memory characteristics among women reporting intimate partner violence: A micro …

AA Contractor, PN Batley… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Evidence links posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms to positive autobiographical
memory characteristics. To extend this research, we uniquely utilized micro-longitudinal data …

Impacts of repeated retrieval of positive and neutral memories on posttrauma health: an investigative pilot study

AA Contractor, B Messman, P Gould, DC Slavish… - Journal of Behavior …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Evidence indicates that positive memory processes play a role
in the etiology and maintenance of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and related …

Do childhood experiences influence associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and positive autobiographical memories among military veteran …

A Miguel-Alvaro, BA Messman, NH Weiss… - Memory, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Evidence links posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and features of
positive autobiographical memories (accessibility, vividness, coherence, sharing, emotional …

An investigation of laboratory-based positive and negative emotional suppression in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder symptom clusters.

R Kiefer, ED Thomas, ER Lawrence… - … , Practice, and Policy, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Background: Emotional suppression is a clinically significant aspect of emotion regulation
with robust associations to psychopathology, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) …

Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom profiles and positive memory characteristics among South Asians in the United States.

AA Contractor, L Jin, D Sameen, NH Weiss - Traumatology, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Evidence links positive memories to the onset/maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD). Using a trauma-exposed South Asian sample in the United States, we examined (a) …

Evocation of positive memories as complement to trauma-focused cognitive–behavioural therapy for intimate partner violence against women

M Crespo, MJ Hernández-Lloreda… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Focusing on positive memories as a complement to trauma-focused
interventions for intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) could contribute to …

Posttraumatic stress symptoms and positive autobiographical memory characteristics in everyday life

AA Contractor, DC Slavish, S Wang… - Journal of Traumatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) report difficulties engaging with
positive autobiographical memories. Extending this line of research, we examined daily …

Beyond the mean: examining associations between intraindividual variability in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and posttrauma reckless behaviors

BA Messman, SE Compton, I Majeed… - Anxiety, Stress, & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Posttrauma reckless behaviors have been linked to the
onset and exacerbation of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. However, PTSD …

Study protocol and rationale for a pilot randomized clinical trial comparing processing of positive memories technique with supportive counseling for PTSD

AA Contractor, H Blumenthal, D Rosenfield… - Contemporary Clinical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Research indicates that positive memories have a role in posttraumatic stress
disorder's (PTSD) symptomatology and treatment. Following treatment development …