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Positive future-oriented fantasies and depressive symptoms: Indirect relationship through brooding

Macrynikola, Natalia, Goklani, Shama, Slotnick, Julia, Miranda, Regina·2017·Consciousness and Cognition
DOI 10.1016/j.concog.2017.02.013
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Although a positive future outlook is generally associated with psychological well-being, indulging in positive fantasies about the future has been found to exacerbate negative mood-related outcomes such as depressive symptoms. We examined rumination as a cognitive mechanism in this relationship, using an objectively coded measure of future-oriented fantasies, among 261 young adults assessed twice. Engaging in a positive fantasy about the future was associated with the brooding subtype of rumination but not with reflection at baseline. There was an indirect relationship between fantasies at baseline and depressive symptoms at six-week follow-up through brooding at average and high levels of fantasy positivity when fantasizing was consistent or increased over time but not when it decreased. Engaging in fantasies was indirectly associated with perceived difficulty anticipating likely positive future outcomes through brooding. These findings extend previous research on positive fantasies by suggesting brooding as a mechanism to explain when they are maladaptive.

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  • Positive fantasy engagement, cognitive biases, or personality dispositions may lead to emotion-focused coping, such as brooding, and subsequently increase the risk for depression.

    “For example, positive fantasy engagement, cognitive biases, or personality dispositions may lead to emotion-focused coping, such as brooding, and subsequently increase the risk for depression [272,284,287].”

    From Biological, Psychological, and Social Determinants of Depression: A Review of Recent Literature (2021) · cites this paper as [284]

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Authors
Macrynikola, N., Goklani, S., Slotnick, J., & Miranda, R.
Affiliations
  • The Graduate Center, CUNY (US)
  • City University of New York (US)
Corresponding author
Miranda, Regina
ORCID
Venue
Consciousness and Cognition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-05
Volume
51
Pages
1-9
ISSN
1053-8100 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.concog.2017.02.013
OpenAlex
W2606344521
Cited by
11
References
52
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
FWCI
1.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Consciousness and Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Mind wandering and attention
Keywords
depressive symptoms, brooding, rumination, reflection, young adults, mood regulation, cognitive mechanisms
MeSH terms
Rumination, Cognitive, Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Depression, Fantasy, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Young Adult

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