ArticleJournal of affective disorders2023
Future-oriented repetitive thought, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation severity: Role of future-event fluency and depressive predictive certainty.
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- Is the intentionality of mind wandering associated with the combined dimensions of temporal orientation and emotional valence?BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Validation and Application of Functions of Future Thinking Scale in Chinese Adults.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- The role of offloading intentions on future-oriented thinking.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Induced optimism to lessen hopelessness-related cognitions among young adults at risk for suicidal thoughts and behavior.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- Cognitive emotion regulation strategies among emerging adults with different self-harm histories.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundKnowing how future-oriented repetitive thought - i.e., repeated consideration of whether positive or negative outcomes will happen in one's future - leads to hopelessness-related cognitions may elucidate the role of anticipating the future in depressive symptoms and suicide ideation. This study examined future-event fluency and depressive predictive certainty - i.e., the tendency to make pessimistic future-event predictions with certainty - as mechanisms explaining the relation between future-oriented repetitive thought, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation.
methodsYoung adults (N = 354), oversampled for suicide ideation or attempt history, completed baseline measures of pessimistic future-oriented repetitive thought (i.e., the degree to which people consider whether negative outcomes will happen or positive outcomes will not happen in their futures), future-event fluency, depressive predictive certainty, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation severity and were followed up 6 months later (N = 324).
resultsPessimistic future-oriented repetitive thought predicted depressive predictive certainty at 6-months, partially mediated by lower positive but not increased negative future-event fluency. There was an indirect relationship between pessimistic future-oriented repetitive thought and 6-month suicide ideation severity via 6-month depressive predictive certainty through 6-month depressive symptoms, and also via 6-month depressive symptoms (but not depressive predictive certainty) alone. LIMITATIONS: Lack of an experimental design limits inferences about causality, and a predominantly female sample may limit generalizability by sex.
conclusionClinical interventions should address pessimistic future-oriented repetitive thought - and its impact on how easily people can think about positive future outcomes - as one potential way to reduce depressive symptoms and, indirectly, suicide ideation.
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