TY - JOUR
T1 - Future-oriented repetitive thought, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation severity
T2 - Role of future-event fluency and depressive predictive certainty
AU - Miranda, Regina
AU - Wheeler, Alyssa
AU - Chapman, Jason E.
AU - Ortin-Peralta, Ana
AU - Mañaná, Jhovelis
AU - Rosario-Williams, Beverlin
AU - Andersen, Susan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/8/15
Y1 - 2023/8/15
N2 - Background: Knowing 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. Methods: Young 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). Results: Pessimistic 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. Conclusion: Clinical 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.
AB - Background: Knowing 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. Methods: Young 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). Results: Pessimistic 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. Conclusion: Clinical 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.
KW - Depression
KW - Depressive predictive certainty
KW - Future thinking
KW - Future-event fluency
KW - Pessimistic repetitive thought
KW - Suicide ideation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.050
DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2023.05.050
M3 - Article
C2 - 37217102
AN - SCOPUS:85159897428
SN - 0165-0327
VL - 335
SP - 401
EP - 409
JO - Journal of Affective Disorders
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders
ER -