their thinking (Dugas, Freeston, & Ladouceur, 1997) and therefore may have a limited ability to conceptualise the future. The current study aims to assess ability to conceptualise their parents’ child’s future. Furthermore, it aims to establish whether parent factors, such as mental health, optimism and tolerance of uncertainty, and child factors, such as age and perceived problem severity, predict variability in future-thinking. The findings could parents’ potentially help us to understand variability in parent conceptions of the future and this, in turn, might inform development of recovery-oriented practice with young people and families. Main Hypotheses It is hypothesised that anxiety, depression and stress will be negatively parents’ correlated with their ability to conceptualise their future, in line with research child’s suggesting anxiety and depression impedes ability to think about the future, Connery & Cheyne, 2000; MacLeod & Byrne, 1996). (O’Connor, Furthermore, it is hypothesised that mental health will predict parents’ and this will be mediated by perceived severity of the problems. child’s Parental optimism and tolerance of uncertainty will be positively correlated with future-thinking whereas their intolerance of uncertainty is proposed to be parents’ negatively correlated with ability to conceptualise their future, due to parents’ child’s the rigidity of their thinking (Dugas et al., 1997). In line with Fraser and (2009) findings, parents of younger children are Warr’s expected to be more able to conceptualise their future. age will child’s Child’s therefore be negatively correlated with future-thinking. parents’
their thinking (Dugas, Freeston, & Ladouceur, 1997) and therefore may have a limited ability to conceptualise the future. The current study aims to assess parents’ ability to conceptualise their child’s future. Furthermore, it aims to establish whether parent factors, such as mental health, optimism and tolerance of uncertainty, and child factors, such as age and perceived problem severity, predict variability in parents’ future-thinking. The findings could potentially help us to understand variability in parent conceptions of the future and this, in turn, might inform development of recovery-oriented practice with young people and families. Main Hypotheses It is hypothesised that parents’ anxiety, depression and stress will be negatively correlated with their ability to conceptualise their child’s future, in line with research suggesting anxiety and depression impedes ability to think about the future, (O’Connor, Connery & Cheyne, 2000; MacLeod & Byrne, 1996). Furthermore, it is hypothesised that parents’ mental health will predict and this will be mediated by perceived severity of the child’s problems. Parental optimism and tolerance of uncertainty will be positively correlated with parents’ future-thinking whereas their intolerance of uncertainty is proposed to be negatively correlated with parents’ ability to conceptualise their child’s future, due to the rigidity of their thinking (Dugas et al., 1997). In line with Fraser and Warr’s (2009) findings, parents of younger children are expected to be more able to conceptualise their child’s future. Child’s age will therefore be negatively correlated with parents’ future-thinking.
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