The performance of everyday memory of raped victims with post traumatic stress disorder

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Rape as a traumatic event has long-term psychological effects such as cognitive disorders. In this study the performance of Everyday Memory in rape victims with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder is investigated. The samples of this study were selected from a group of girls and women with PTSD of rape as an experimental and a group of girls and women without PTSD and rape as a control. They were matched by age, education and social- economical level. They were completed Impact of Event Scale-Revised, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress-21, Rivermid Behavioral Memory Test-3, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. The averages of two groups were compared with one way ANOVA. Results show that the performance of PTSD samples in everyday memory ,verbal memory and future memory is weak and there are significant differences in terms of memory performance between two studied groups. Consequently, it is concluded that raped group suffer from memory deficit. On the base data, suggest to investigator attention to the other types of memory additionally.

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Journal of Psychological Studies
Volume 12, Issue 2
September 2016
Pages 129-146

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