The Structure of Autobiographical Memory and the Event History Calendar: Potential Improvements in the Quality of Retrospective Reports in Surveys

Memory ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Belli
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Event History ◽  
Retrospective Reports ◽  
Event History Calendar

scholarly journals Grieving experiences amongst adolescents orphaned by AIDS: Analysis from event history calendars

Curationis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Thupayagale-Tshweneagae
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Event History ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Event History Calendar ◽  
Coping Patterns

Mental health is an essential component of adolescent health and wellbeing. Mental health practitioners assess adolescents’ mental health status to identify possible issues that may lead to mental health problems. However, very few of the tools used to assess the mental health status of adolescents include assessment for grieving and coping patterns. The current tools used for assessing an individual’s mental health are lengthy and not comprehensive. The purpose of this study was to assess grieving patterns of adolescents orphaned by AIDS and to appraise the sefulness of an event history calendar as an assessment tool for identifying grieving experiences, in order to guide and support these adolescents through the grieving process. One hundred and two adolescents aged 14–18 years, who had been orphaned by AIDS, completed an event history calendar, reviewed it with the researcher and reported their perceptions of it. Thematic analysis of the event history calendar content revealed that it is an effective, time-efficient, adolescent-friendly tool that facilitated identification and discussion of the orphaned adolescents’ grieving patterns. Crying, isolation, silence and violent outbursts were the main grieving patterns reported by adolescents orphaned by AIDS. The researcher recommends use of the event history calendar for identification of orphaned adolescents’ grieving experiences. Early identification would enable mental health practitioners to support them in order to prevent the occurrence of mental illness due to maladaptive grieving.

scholarly journals Boosting Autobiographical Memory and the Sense of Identity of Alzheimer Patients Through Repeated Reminiscence Workshops?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hervé Platel ◽  
Marie-Loup Eustache ◽  
Renaud Coppalle ◽  
Armelle Viard ◽  
Francis Eustache ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Severe Dementia ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Individual Assessment ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Complementary Study

Despite severe amnesia, some studies showed that Alzheimer Disease (AD) patients with moderate to severe dementia keep a consistent, but impoverished representation of themselves, showing preservation of the sense of identity even at severe stages of the illness. Some studies suggest that listening to music can facilitate the reminiscence of autobiographical memories and that stimulating autobiographical memory would be relevant to support the self of these patients. Consequently, we hypothesized that repeated participation to reminiscence workshops, using excerpts of familiar songs as prompts would participate to the enrichment of autobiographical memories, self-representation and sense of identity. We included a group of 20 AD patients with severe dementia residing in nursing homes. Their performances were compared to a control group of 20 matched (age, education, mood) healthy residents living in the same institutions. The experiment was conducted in three phases over a 2-week period. On phase 1, an individual assessment of sense of identity was proposed to each participant. On phase 2, participants joined musical reminiscence workshops (six sessions over 2 weeks for AD patients and 3 sessions over a week for controls). During the third phase (12 days after the first assessment), individual evaluation of autobiographical memory and a second assessment of sense of identity were proposed. Our results showed that, despite their massive amnesia syndrome, autobiographical memories of AD reached at the end of the 2 weeks the number and quality of those of matched controls. Moreover, we confirmed a continuity of self-representation in AD patients with a stable profile of the answers between the first and second individual assessments of sense of identity. However, the increase in number and episodic quality of autobiographical memories was not accompanied by an enrichment of the sense of identity. In a complementary study, new patients participated in the same paradigm, but using movie extracts as prompts, and showed very similar effects. We discuss all of these results with regard to the literature showing the significant impact of repetition on the reactivation of memory traces even in very amnestic AD patients at severe stages of the disease.

The Event History Calendar as an Instrument for Longitudinal Criminological Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 92 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 137-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Eisner ◽  
Joseph Murray ◽  
Denis Ribeaud ◽  
Tuba Topcuoglu ◽  
Lila Kazemian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Event History ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
Event History Calendar

Tailoring and testing an event history calendar of lifetime sexual partnerships for military Veterans

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 415-429
Author(s):  
Anne C. Black ◽  
Thomas J. McMahon ◽  
Mary-Lynn Brecht ◽  
Marc I. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Military Veterans ◽  
Event History ◽  
Sexual Partnerships ◽  
Event History Calendar

Autobiographical Memory, Depression and Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela M. Kenealy ◽  
Graham J. Beaumont ◽  
Tracey Lintern ◽  
Rachel Murrell
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Autobiographical Memory
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