Difficulties in retrieving specific details of autobiographical memories and imagining positive future events in individuals with acute but not remitted anorexia nervosa

Table 2 Effect of cue valence, group and cue valence x group in ANCOVA models for autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking outcomes

	Valence		Group		Valence × Group
	F-value (df = 2,232)	p value (Cohen’s d)	F-value (df = 2,116)	p value (Cohen’s d)	F-value (df = 4,232)	p value (Cohen’s d)
Autobiographical memory task
Specificity^a	0.62	0.542 (0.14)	3.59	0.031* (0.50)	1.68	0.155 (0.34)
Detailedness^b	0.12	0.890 (0.06)	2.08	0.129 (0.38)	1.65	0.163 (0.34)
Difficulty to remember^b	0.33	0.720 (0.11)	4.55	0.013* (0.56)	1.94	0.104 (0.36)
Realistic^b	0.65	0.524 (0.16)	1.91	0.153 (0.36)	1.09	0.360 (0.28)
Positivity^b	4.48	0.012* (0.39)	6.44	0.002** (0.67)	2.02	0.093 (0.38)
Vividness^b	2.42	0.091 (0.29)	1.84	0.163 (0.36)	2.54	0.040* (0.42)
Episodic future thinking task
Specificity^a	0.12	0.886 (0.06)	0.57	0.568 (0.20)	0.61	0.656 (0.20)
Detailedness^b	0.08	0.926 (0.06)	0.73	0.485 (0.22)	2.38	0.053 (0.40)
Difficulty to imagine^b	0.46	0.634 (0.13)	2.66	0.075 (0.43)	1.91	0.110 (0.36)
Realistic^b	2.61	0.076 (0.30)	1.65	0.196 (0.34)	2.00	0.095 (0.37)
Positivity^b	1.89	0.154 (0.26)	6.57	0.002** (0.67)	3.33	0.011** (0.48)
Vividness^b	0.64	0.478 (0.16)	2.14	0.123 (0.39)	0.95	0.413 (0.26)

**Significant at p < 0.01, *significant at p < 0.05. All analyses were run with age and years of education as covariates
^aExperimenter rated, ^bParticipant rated

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