Finding Healthy Coping Mechanisms in Autobiographical Memory
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 1712
Special Issue Editor
Interests: autobiographical memory; memory for emotional events; memory (recognition) and believability of news media; encoding specificity; linking objective memory measures and self-report measures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is focused on healthy coping mechanisms and healthy coping outcomes supporting the emotional self in the context of autobiographical memory. Therefore, papers published as a part of this Special Issue should systematically examine and describe emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and social mediators and moderators involved in the relationship between individuals’ emotions and the predictors of these emotions. These third-variable mechanisms should help researchers and clinicians understand how individuals think and feel about their role in the story of their lives from their perspectives. The outcome variables for the studies in this special issue should include quantitative and qualitative measures of emotional affect, psychological distress (i.e., depression, anxiety, and stress), self-esteem, well-being, life-satisfaction, fading affect, differential fading affect (i.e., fading affect bias), and other conceptually similar types of measures. The predictors, mediators, and moderators of these outcome variables should include subjective and objective performance measures, rehearsal rates, consumption rates, accurate and false recall and recognition rates, reaction times, religious measures, coronaphobia, and the previously mentioned outcome variables and their various forms (e.g., generalized anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, work anxiety, school anxiety, and social anxiety). Diverse contexts, such as drugs, addiction, religion, death, video games, plutonic, romantic, and/or sexual relationships, physical and mental conditions, abuse, and self-help, are particularly welcomed.
Dr. Jeffrey Gibbons
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- autobiographical memory
- fading affect bias
- moderators
- mediators
- emotion regulation
- healthy coping mechanism
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