ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Future Self-Continuity, Mindfulness, & Depression

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Clinical Science

  • Chayim Rosensweig
    Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University
  • Chayim Rosensweig
    James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Chayim Rosensweig
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Chynna Levin
    Teacher's College, Columbia University
  • Chynna Levin
  • Chynna Levin
    James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Yosef Sokol
    James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Yosef Sokol
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Abstract

354 adults completed self-report measures regarding future self-continuity, mindfulness, and depression. Future self-continuity and mindfulness were moderately positively correlated with each other, and each was moderately negatively correlated with depression. The interaction between them was a meaningful predictor of levels of depression, accounting for more variance than each individually.

Mindfulness and Meditation