The Investigation of Autobiographical memory and cognitive emotion regulation in refugee adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Mostafa Ahadi¹ Fateme Taheri² Nahid Jahanshahi Hesari³

1) MA student ,Department of Psychology, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran
2) Department of Psychology, University of Allame Tabatabayi, Tehran, Iran
3) Department of Psychology, University of Olom va Tahghighat, Tehran, Iran

IOI Code : XYCH-AECBH
Publication : 3rd International conference on Management , Economics and Humanities(icmeh.org)
Abstract :
    Previous research has shown that prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and memory problems are high in migrating or refugee people but little is known about the mediating factors such as emotion regulation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate autobiographical memory (AM) and cognitive emotion regulation in 25 migrating adolescents (aged 14–18 years) who suffer from PTSD. According to this study like many other studies, adolescents with PTSD have had problems in autobiographical memory and also they’ve been significantly different in acceptance, rumination and other-blame. As well as they significantly differ in depression and anxiety. In the result section, we can see that adolescents with PTSD in addition to memory problems, suffer from bad strategies in emotion regulation, so it can be a mediating factor in autobiographical memory problems

Keywords : adolescents autobiographical memory cognitive emotion regulation ptsd refugee