Effect of Emotional Content on Memory Characteristics: Emotional Valence, Emotional Intensity, and Individual Emotions

The aim of the present study is to examine relationships between emotional valence and intensity autobiographical memories phenomenological characteristics in context individual emotions memory types. Seven hundred sixty-four students (514 female, 250 male) from Dokuz Eylul University participated study. Participants were asked recall an childhood memory, a self-defining or romantic relationship memory. After thinking about they remember, requested fill out Autobiographical Memory Characteristics Questionnaire scale for emotions. Regression analyses showed that predicted sensory details, rehearsal, preoccupation with In moderated-mediation analyses, mediating effects detected characteristics, except negative self-esteem Among these moderating effect types was only hostile anxiety-related through mediation intensity. While singular stronger valence, main variable overall