Table 4.
Retrieval characteristics of involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories in patients with schizophrenia and control participants, in Study 2.
| Patients with schizophrenia (n = 25) | Control participants (n = 25) | Statistics F(1,48) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Involuntary | Voluntary | Involuntary | Voluntary | Group | Retrieval | Interaction | ||||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | F | F | F | ||||
| Number of memories | 8.37 | 2.34 | 9.54 | 1.18 | 7.36 | 2.60 | 9.92 | 0.40 | 0.62 | 0.01 | 29.88*** | 0.39 | 4.18* | 0.08 |
| Log (retrieval time in seconds) | 3.58 | 0.09 | 3.99 | 0.23 | 3.57 | 0.07 | 3.95 | 0.18 | 0.89 | 0.02 | 145.19*** | 0.76 | 0.21 | 0.01 |
| Number of cues | 60.21 | 21.94 | 12.58 | 4.82 | 72.62 | 15.10 | 12.50 | 4.19 | 4.72* | 0.09 | 383.34*** | 0.89 | 5.16* | 0.10 |
| Cognitive effort | 2.58 | 1.61 | 3.72 | 1.10 | 1.72 | 0.68 | 3.07 | 1.24 | 7.22* | 0.13 | 40.32*** | 0.46 | 0.29 | 0.01 |
| Surprise effect | 3.53 | 1.52 | 3.90 | 1.27 | 4.21 | 1.70 | 3.97 | 1.62 | 1.06 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 1.57 | 0.03 |
p < 0.05;
p < 0.001.