Stressful events in autobiographical memory processing: Brazilian version of the centrality of event scale

• Autor(a) principal: Gauer,Gustavo
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Souza,Juliana Ávila de, Silveira,André Madsen da, Sediyama,Cristina Yumi Nogueira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722013000100011
• topic: Centrality of event; stress; trauma; memory; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A stressful or traumatic event may become a central reference point in the organization of long-term memory, influencing the meaning of other experiences. The Centrality of Event Scale (CES) is an instrument in which participants recall the most traumatic event of their life and endorse 20 items. The CES was translated, adapted and validated for the Brazilian context in a sample of 195 undergraduates (75.8% women). The version obtained good internal consistency and significant correlation with a screening measure of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms. New hypotheses on the cognitive processing of traumatic events are explored in the light of a factor analysis of the CES. Opportunities for CES use include monitoring cognitive patterns and therapeutic effectiveness in situations related to trauma.