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Table 1 Mean (and standard deviation) scores for depressed and non-depressed participants on memory elements, emotional valence, and retrieval sequence

From: Autobiographical memory and hierarchical search strategies in depressed and non-depressed participants

 

Memory count

Depressed

Non-depressed

Memory elements

 

Mean ± SD

Range

Mean ± SD

Range

 ESK

 

0.40 ± 0.27

0.10-1.08

1.40 ± 0.49

0.42-2.62

 GE

 

0.96 ± 0.41

0.23-1.82

1.25 ± 0.29

0.83-1.69

 LTP

315

0.34 ± 0.14

0.00-0.55

0.53 ± 0.11

0.39-0.75

 TH

 

0.56 ± 0.21

0.27-1.00

0.27 ± 0.20

0.08-0.73

 MIX

 

0.37 ± 0.17

0.08-0.62

0.45 ± 0.23

0.17-0.91

 OTR

 

0.41 ± 0.17

0.15-0.77

0.41 ± 0.16

0.15-0.75

Emotional valence

     

 Positive

 

0.14 ± 0.06

0.00-0.23

0.33 ± 0.07

0.18-0.46

 Negative

315

0.52 ± 0.12

0.33-0.73

0.42 ± 0.11

0.18-0.58

 Neutral

 

0.35 ± 0.12

0.09-0.50

0.25 ± 0.09

0.08-0.39

Retrieval sequence

     

 LTP → GE → ESK

 

0.10 ± 0.11

0.00-0.33

0.36 ± 0.18

0.09-0.73

 LTP → ESK

 

0.06 ± 0.11

0.00-0.33

0.09 ± 0.25

0.00-0.90

 LTP → GE

206

0.39 ± 0.16

0.00-0.60

0.16 ± 0.12

0.00-0.30

 GE → ESK

 

0.32 ± 0.26

0.00-1.00

0.34 ± 0.14

0.13-0.58

 GE → LTP

 

0.13 ± 0.12

0.00-0.33

0.17 ± 0.23

0.00-0.80

  1. LTP = life time period knowledge; GE = general event knowledge; ESK = event specific knowledge.