Table 2.
Characteristics of the recollective experience of autobiographical memories
| Memory characteristic | High involvement AM |
Low involvement AM |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | SD | M | SD | |
| Valence | 4.55 | 0.83 | 4.67 | 0.56 |
| Arousal | 5.03 | 0.54 | 4.82 | 0.53 |
| Vividness* | 3.39 | 0.29 | 3.14 | 0.43 |
| Rehearsal | 2.86 | 0.76 | 2.80 | 0.79 |
| Confidence* | 5.56 | 1.1 | 4.04 | 1.1 |
| Reliving | 5.55 | 0.80 | 4.43 | 0.83 |
| Perspective* | 1.82 | 0.89 | 2.49 | 1.1 |
| Imagery | 5.46 | 0.95 | 5.46 | 0.86 |
Note. Asterisk denotes a statistically significant difference between high and low involvement AMs (P < 0.05). For valence, higher numbers are more positive; for perspective, higher numbers indicate more outside-observer perspective (relative to first-person perspective); for imagery, higher numbers indicate more visual imagery (relative to narrative imagery).