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ArticleInternational journal of methods in psychiatric research2023

Young people's future thinking and mental health: The development and validation of the Adolescent Future Thinking Rating Scale.

Peiyao Tang, Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Katarzyna Kostyrka-Allchorne, Jacqueline Phillips-Owen

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Article in International journal of methods in psychiatric research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Peiyao TangSchool of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5655-0733
Edmund Sonuga-BarkeSchool of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Katarzyna Kostyrka-AllchorneSchool of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Jacqueline Phillips-OwenSchool of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.

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objectivesWe aimed to develop and validate a new scale of future thinking and adolescent mental health-the Adolescent Future Thinking Rating Scale (AFTRS).

methodsA provisional AFTRS was developed from interviews with 19 adolescents. It was completed by three samples: exploratory (n = 161) aged 16-21 years, who also completed established measures of future thinking, cognitive risk factors, depression and anxiety; replication (n = 209) aged 16-25 years; and test-retest (n = 102) aged 17-23 years. The reliability, convergent, predictive, and discriminant validity were examined.

resultsExploratory factor analyses identified the AFTRS-18 and AFTRS-12. Both had three sub-scales: (i) Concerns about Maladaptive Future Thinking, (ii) Future Positivity, and (iii) Ability to Visualise the Future. Established future thinking measures were combined into two factors: Negative Future Emotions (Cognitive Triad Inventory-View of Future and Beck's Hopelessness Scale) and Immediacy Preference (Consideration of Future Consequences and Quick Delay Questionnaire). The AFTRS-18 and AFTRS-12 were similarly associated with both factors and with depression/anxiety. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were high.

conclusionsThe AFTRS-12 and AFTRS-18 are reliable and valid measures of the three key dimensions of adolescent future thinking and mental health. The first subscale remained significant in predicting depression and anxiety after controlling for general cognitive risks.

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depressionfuture thinkinggeneralised anxietyscale validationyoung people

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