The Futures We Want: How Goal-Directed Imagination Relates to Mental Health

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The Futures We Want: How Goal-Directed Imagination Relates to Mental Health

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Imagination is an adaptive ability that can be directed towards the pursuit of personal goals. While there is a wealth of research on goals, and on imagination, few studies lie at the intersection—little is known about individual differences in goal directed imagination. In 153 adults, we examined how 28 aspects of goal setting, pursuit, and goal-directed imagination relate to mental health. Higher well-being and lower depressive symptoms were strongly linked to having goals that were more at...

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Date created

2019

Creator

Gamble, Beau / Tippett, Lynette / Moreau, David / Addis, Donna Rose

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/65008

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Depression / Clinical Research / Mental Health / Behavioral and Social Science / Mind and Body / 3 Good Health and Well Being

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