An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale.
BACKGROUND: Mental imagery of the future has clear clinical importance, although little is known about intrusive, prospective imagery of personally-relevant events. Currently, no measure is available to assess this. AIMS: The Impact of Future Events Scale (IFES) was created to assess the impact of...
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| description | BACKGROUND: Mental imagery of the future has clear clinical importance, although little is known about intrusive, prospective imagery of personally-relevant events. Currently, no measure is available to assess this. AIMS: The Impact of Future Events Scale (IFES) was created to assess the impact of intrusive, prospective, personally-relevant imagery. It was examined in relation to predictions about dysphoria. METHOD: To form the IFES, the IES-R (a measure of the impact of a past traumatic event on posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology such as intrusive re-experiencing) was adapted item-by-item to assess intrusive "pre-experiencing" and imagery of specific, future events. Participants (N = 75) completed the IFES and assessments of depression, anxiety and general imagery use. RESULTS: As predicted, the IFES significantly and positively correlated with depression scores. Analyses using subgroups of non-dysphoric and mild-dysphoric participants confirmed that the mild-dysphoric group reported significantly higher IFES scores, indicating higher levels of pre-experiencing of the future and related hyperarousal and avoidance. CONCLUSIONS: IFES provides a measure of the impact of "pre-experiencing" in the form of intrusive prospective, personally-relevant imagery, with sensitivity to group differences on the basis of depression scores. Further research is required to extend these finding into clinical depression and other psychopathological conditions. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:bbd4333b-732c-4b9e-a24c-01c34f03ac2f2022-03-27T05:19:52ZAn exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:bbd4333b-732c-4b9e-a24c-01c34f03ac2fEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2010Deeprose, CHolmes, E BACKGROUND: Mental imagery of the future has clear clinical importance, although little is known about intrusive, prospective imagery of personally-relevant events. Currently, no measure is available to assess this. AIMS: The Impact of Future Events Scale (IFES) was created to assess the impact of intrusive, prospective, personally-relevant imagery. It was examined in relation to predictions about dysphoria. METHOD: To form the IFES, the IES-R (a measure of the impact of a past traumatic event on posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology such as intrusive re-experiencing) was adapted item-by-item to assess intrusive "pre-experiencing" and imagery of specific, future events. Participants (N = 75) completed the IFES and assessments of depression, anxiety and general imagery use. RESULTS: As predicted, the IFES significantly and positively correlated with depression scores. Analyses using subgroups of non-dysphoric and mild-dysphoric participants confirmed that the mild-dysphoric group reported significantly higher IFES scores, indicating higher levels of pre-experiencing of the future and related hyperarousal and avoidance. CONCLUSIONS: IFES provides a measure of the impact of "pre-experiencing" in the form of intrusive prospective, personally-relevant imagery, with sensitivity to group differences on the basis of depression scores. Further research is required to extend these finding into clinical depression and other psychopathological conditions. |
| spellingShingle | Deeprose, C Holmes, E An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale. |
| title | An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale. |
| title_full | An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale. |
| title_fullStr | An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale. |
| title_full_unstemmed | An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale. |
| title_short | An exploration of prospective imagery: the impact of future events scale. |
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