Future thinking and anticipatory pleasure in adolescents with major depression: Association with depression symptoms and executive functions.

Objective: Impairments in episodic future thinking and anticipatory pleasure were noted to explain the depressive symptoms in adults however similar studies are not there in adolescents. This study examined whether there are impairments in episodic future thinking and anticipatory pleasure in clinically-depressed adolescents as compared to non-depressed adolescents, and their association with depression when controlled for executive functions and anxiety symptoms among the depressed adolescents.

Methods: The study included 29 adolescents with major depression and 29 adolescents from local schools through convenient sampling technique.