Humans show a systematic tendency to perceive the future as psychologically closer than the past. Based on the clinical hypothesis that anxiety would be associated more with future threat life events, whereas depression with past loss events, here we explored whether people with anxiety- and depression-related personality traits perceive differently the psychological distance of temporal events. Results showed that the common tendency to perceive the future as psychologically closer than the past is exaggerated in individuals with anxiety-related personality traits, whereas this asymmetry drastically shrinks in individuals with depression-related personality traits. Beyond substantiating the hypothesis that the past and the future are differently faced by people with depression- and anxiety-related personality traits, the present findings suggest that temporal orientation of one’s self may be greatly altered in anxiety and depression.

Rinaldi, L., Locati, F., Parolin, L., Girelli, L. (2017). Distancing the present self from the past and the future: Psychological distance in anxiety and depression. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 70(7), 1106-1113 [10.1080/17470218.2016.1271443].

Distancing the present self from the past and the future: Psychological distance in anxiety and depression

RINALDI, LUCA
Primo
;
LOCATI, FRANCESCA
Secondo
;
PAROLIN, LAURA ANTONIA LUCIA
Penultimo
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GIRELLI, LUISA
Ultimo
2017

Abstract

Humans show a systematic tendency to perceive the future as psychologically closer than the past. Based on the clinical hypothesis that anxiety would be associated more with future threat life events, whereas depression with past loss events, here we explored whether people with anxiety- and depression-related personality traits perceive differently the psychological distance of temporal events. Results showed that the common tendency to perceive the future as psychologically closer than the past is exaggerated in individuals with anxiety-related personality traits, whereas this asymmetry drastically shrinks in individuals with depression-related personality traits. Beyond substantiating the hypothesis that the past and the future are differently faced by people with depression- and anxiety-related personality traits, the present findings suggest that temporal orientation of one’s self may be greatly altered in anxiety and depression.
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Anxiety-related traits; Depression-related traits; Past and future; Psychological distance; Representational asymmetries; Time perception; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology; Physiology; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Psychology (all); Physiology (medical)
English
2017
70
7
1106
1113
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Rinaldi, L., Locati, F., Parolin, L., Girelli, L. (2017). Distancing the present self from the past and the future: Psychological distance in anxiety and depression. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 70(7), 1106-1113 [10.1080/17470218.2016.1271443].
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