False Memory And Teenagers: The Effects Of Sleep Quality And Creative Imagination

In the present study,the most significant purpose was to identify which people are more likely to create false memories.We tried to find out the specific features of the participants who believed in false information,which was taken as his or her own memories.It was also important to distinguish what kinds of people are more inclined to the making of false memories.More important,most studies are based on adults and characters of teenagers in false memory is rare investigated.After collecting all the data,we summed up the results of every test.There were 65 participants in our study and we found that 28 students created false memories.Girls have higher bias to have false memory than boys,with the number of 19 girls and 9 boys respectively.We managed to identify some of the personality traits and health conditions which make people be more prone to fund new memories even if they are not real.In this research,there were checked such features as extroversion/introversion and level of creative imagination.We explored the influence of sleep deprivation,depression and stress on making false memories.We explored the influence of sleep deprivation,depression and stress on making false memories.Our data illustrated that false memory(FM)group have higher depression bias,as BDI scores for FM is higher than non-FM group.More important,people in FM group is significantly more introvert than non-FM group.In addition,FM group are more creative imagination,with significant higher Creative Imagination Scale than non-FM group.However,we did not identify any between-group differences in sleep quality and stress.We further conducted several correlation analyses among the questionnaires in FM group and non-FM group separately.For FM group,we found the Creative Imagination Scale has large correlation with sleep quality,with r=-0.347 and p=0.070.That is mean,person with bad sleep quality may more bias to have higher creative imagination,though this phenomenon is not significant.For non-FM group,we did not find any significant correlation among these questionnaires.Generally speaking,people with more false memory are more depression bias,have more imagination,however,they are more introvert.We also found the strong correlation between the Creative Imagination Scale and sleep quality.The occurrence of false memory may strongly related to poor sleep quality and high creative imagination,especially for teenagers.