Objective: Overgeneral autobiographical memory (AM) was reported in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) using AM cueing tasks that did not directly indexes memories that are personally important to the individual, that is, self-defining memories (SDMs). The aim of this study is to investigate characteristics of SDMs in females with AN.
Method: A total of 46 outpatients with chronic AN and 52 healthy controls (HC) were asked to recall three SDMs.