ArticleArchives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research
Examining Highly Novel Positive Future Thinking in Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Adolescents.
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- How Teens Imagine Tomorrow: Hopelessness and Suicidality Across Latent Classes of Episodic Future Thinking.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Pessimistic repetitive thought, goal-oriented repetitive thought, and positive indulging about the future as predictors of suicide ideation among treatment-seeking adolescents.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Advances in Mental Time Travel Research in Adolescent Depression: A Narrative Review.Alpha psychiatry · 2025Review
- Stanford Screenomics: An Open-source Platform for Unobtrusive Multimodal Digital Trace Data Collection from Android Smartphones.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- The relationship between positive future thinking, entrapment, defeat and death-related mental imagery in individuals with and without a suicidal history: an experimental study.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Testing the modifiability of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents.JCPP advances · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough traditionally considered protective, certain forms of positive future thinking (PFT) may be associated with greater suicide risk. In this first a priori investigation of potential maladaptive forms of PFT, we tested whether novelty (i.e., dissimilarity to past experiences) and lack of attainment of the imagined positive future may explain counterintuitive associations between PFT and suicidal ideation (SI).
methodAt baseline, adolescents (
resultsPFT, only when highly novel, was associated with stronger recent SI severity at baseline, above and beyond depressive symptoms. It also significantly predicted recent SI severity 3 and 6 months later, although not after we controlled for baseline SI severity. Novelty of the imagined positive future was not related to whether the event happened. However, when those events did happen, adolescents who imagined more novel events tended to experience them less positively than imagined, which separately predicted stronger recent SI severity at the 6-month follow-up.
conclusionsResults support that PFT is a heterogeneous construct that is not uniformly beneficial. Better understanding potential pitfalls of PFT may help us discern how to best incorporate PFT into clinical interventions.
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