The effect of personality factors on retrieval of autobiographical memory

Many studies in the field of memory is done in related to autobiographical memory and factors affecting it. Considering the role of mood's characteristics on retrieving of memory, This study was conducted to investigate the effects of personality factors on retrieval of autobiographical memory. The research method was correlation and statistical population consisted of all Payam Noor University Students in South Khorasan Province that 146 of them were selected by multi-stage random cluster sampling method. SAM questionnaire is used to determine of students score in autobiographical memory and NEOFF-I questionnaire is used to determine of students score in five factors of personality. Data were analyzed by using regression and univariate on SPSS 18 software. Results showed that all personality factors are predictors of autobiographical memory score (p< 0/01). In addition, investigated the effects of gender and field of study on retrieval of autobiographical memory, which the results showed no effect of these two factors on student's autobiographical memory. Discussion & The results showed that the five factors of personality can act as predictors of student's autobiographical memory. Also factors such as educational and gender differences cannot be effective for the retrieval of autobiographical memories. Keywords: Autobiographical memory, personality factors, gender differences, educational differences, Payam Noor University.