Anticipated and imagined futures: prospective cognition and depressed mood following brain injury.
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Publication Date
2019-03Journal Title
The British journal of clinical psychology
ISSN
0144-6657
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Volume
58
Issue
1
Pages
91-109
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print-Electronic
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Murphy, F., Peers, P., Blackwell, S. E., Holmes, E. A., & Manly, T. (2019). Anticipated and imagined futures: prospective cognition and depressed mood following brain injury.. The British journal of clinical psychology, 58 (1), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12202
Abstract
Objectives. Depression, which is common following Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), has been shown to predict cognitive impairment, rehabilitation outcome, and quality of life. Whilst many studies have examined links between depression and cognitive-affective processing in the non-ABI population, their applicability to this important clinical group, where cognitive difficulties can be marked, remains unknown. Here we investigated biases in prospective cognition, which is known to be disrupted in (non-ABI) depression yet important for well-being.
Design. Cross-sectional design with three groups (depressed ABI, non-depressed ABI, non-ABI control participants). Continuous data were additionally analysed in correlation analyses.
Methods. Individuals with ABI varying in extent of self-reported depression and matched non-ABI control participants completed assessments of mood and prospective cognition (anticipating and imagining future events), alongside background tests of executive function and fluid intelligence.
Results. Relative to non-depressed ABI and control participants, depressed ABI individuals demonstrated a reduced positive bias in prospective cognition: whereas non-depressed ABI and control participants generated more examples of likely or possible positive versus negative future events, there was no evidence for such a positive bias in depressed ABI participants. Non-depressed ABI and control participants also reported more vivid mental imagery for positive versus negative future scenarios whereas such a pattern was not evident in depressed ABI participants. This pattern emerged despite background impairments in fluid intelligence and executive function associated with ABI.
Conclusions. These findings (1) elucidate depression-linked cognitive-affective processes following ABI, where cognitive difficulties are common, and (2) highlight psychological processes associated with depression that are common to ABI and non-ABI populations.
Keywords
Humans, Brain Injuries, Treatment Outcome, Case-Control Studies, Prospective Studies, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression, Affect, Cognition, Imagination, Quality of Life, Adult, Aged, Middle Aged, Female, Male, Executive Function, Self Report, Bias
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12202
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284757