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Future self-continuity is an individual’s connection to their prospective future self, which influences intertemporal decisions between the present and future self. This study investigates how previous life-changing experiences (i.e., failing school, caregiver death, caregiver unemployment), parental discipline style, and environmental risk factors in adolescence may influence future self-continuity in early adulthood. Previous experiments find that self-continuity is disrupted when changes to their future identities are unexpected, negative, and personally relevant. Therefore, youth who experienced unexpected, negative, and personally relevant past events are more likely to negatively adjust their expectations of self-continuity in the future. We investigate the relationship of life-changing experiences to each of the connection, vividness, and valence components of future self-continuity using longitudinal data from a representative sample of urban youth from the city of Zurich, Switzerland. As a subsidiary goal we examine to what extent future self-continuity in early adulthood correlates with relevant concurrent outcomes of delinquency, academic success, and well-being. |
