Datasets for "Autobiographical memory of care-experienced young people: Memory characteristics and associations with maltreatment and mental health"

This is data collected from 62 care-experienced young people aged 10-17 years old, and their social workers and carers. Included is basic demographic information for the young person and variables representing the key constructs that we were interested in measuring; maltreatment, memory and mental health. Social workers reported on maltreatment severity using Kaufman et al. (1994) rating scales, which cover: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, domestic violence (each rated on a 0-4 scale), and neglect (rated on a 0-10 scale). We have also measured posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS; Sachser et al., 2017) and depression using the 10-item Depression subscale from the Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale - short version (RCADS-short; Ebesutani et al., 2012). We have both child and carer report on these measures. The memory variables were derived from the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT; Williams & Broadbent, 1986), which was delivered 1:1 with the young person by a trained researcher, according to standard instructions. Participants were asked to provide a specific memory in response to 10 cue words in the following order: happy, lonely, interested, hurt, surprised, sad, successful, angry, safe, and careless. These open-ended responses were then coded to identify memory specificity (as per standard coding procedures for this task), memory valence, memory importance, and the relational nature of the memory (See manuscript for further information about memory coding).

本数据集收集自62名10至17岁的有照护经验的年轻人及其社会工作者和监护人。其中包含了年轻个体的基本人口统计信息以及代表我们所关注的核心结构的变量，包括虐待、记忆和心理健康。社会工作者根据Kaufman等人（1994）的评级量表对虐待的严重程度进行了报告，该量表涵盖了：身体虐待、性虐待、情感虐待、家庭暴力（每项均在0-4的量表上评级），以及忽视（在0-10的量表上评级）。我们还使用儿童和青少年创伤筛查量表（CATS；Sachser等人，2017）对创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）进行了测量，并使用修订版儿童焦虑和抑郁量表简本（RCADS-short；Ebesutani等人，2012）的10项抑郁子量表对抑郁进行了测量。我们收集了儿童和监护人的这些测量结果。记忆变量来自自传体记忆测试（AMT；Williams & Broadbent，1986），该测试由一名经过培训的研究员按照标准说明进行一对一评估。参与者被要求针对以下顺序的10个提示词提供特定的记忆：快乐、孤独、感兴趣、受伤、惊讶、悲伤、成功、愤怒、安全和粗心。这些开放式回答随后被编码以识别记忆的特异性（按照该任务的标准编码程序），记忆的效价、记忆的重要性以及记忆的关系性质（关于记忆编码的更多信息，请参见手稿）。