Effects of thinking and writing about yourself and your life

Effects of vision of desired future on subjective well-being and depression - VDF study

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000050568

Enrollment

Registered

2023-03-31

Start date

2022-06-13

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Healthy adult

Interventions

Exercise to make participants think and write down their desired future and the steps toward the future (once a day for four days) Exercise to make participants recall and write down their life at the

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Students of university and graduate school in Meiji Gakuin University

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Having current medical history of psychiatry or psychosomatic medicine. Having a history of psychiatry or psychosomatic medicine. Having psychological counseling at present. Feeling significant discomfort due to physical or psychological symptoms at present. Having symptoms of a fever or a cold within the past two weeks. Those who are positive for COVID-19 or have a close contact with a person with COVID-19.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Psychological well-being scale (before, and one week and four weeks after intervention)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Japanese version of Subjective Happiness Scale Japanese version of Life Orientation Scale K6 (for the above, before, and one week and four weeks after intervention)) Moods before and after an intervention Manipulation check for an intervention	—

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactTaku Ito

Meiji Gakuin University Faculty of Psychology

takuito@psy.meijigakuin.ac.jp0354215373

Outcome results

None listed

Source: JPRN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Jul 3, 2026