3.4. Memory content
Content analyses were conducted for personal and vicarious memories involving friends and parents. Across memory
types, discomfort/trauma themes, social relationship themes, and idiosyncratic (‘‘other’’) themes were frequently represented.
Themes evident in at least 15% of memories were as follows: personal memory-friend (discomfort/trauma 30%, social
relationships 34%); vicarious memory-friend (discomfort/trauma 33%, other 22%, social relationships 17%); personal
memory-parent (discomfort/trauma 28%, other 22%, social relationships 21%); vicarious memory-parent (discomfort/trauma
33%, social relationships19%, other 16%).