Development and validation of Future Time Perspective Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 533-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houchao Lyu ◽  
Xiting Huang
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Development And Validation

Future time perspective is a personality trait that involves people’s thoughts, feelings, and actions related to their futures. However, no multidimensional measures of future time perspective have been developed within Chinese cultural context. This study examined the structure of future time perspective by developing and validating a Future Time Perspective Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults in middle school and college student samples. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses resulted in a final measure that included 28 items loading onto six factors: Future-negative, future-positive, future-confusion, future-perseverant, future-perspicuity, and future-planning. The six-factor structure with high reliability and strong patterns of validity estimates was established. Future Time Perspective Scale for Adolescents and Young Adults will be useful in studies testing adolescents’ and young adults’ future time perspective. Future directions for the study of future time perspective in adolescents and young adults and limitations of the current study were discussed.

Is Future Time Perspective Multidimensional?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Aneta Przepiorka ◽  
Tomasz Jankowski ◽  
Malgorzata Sobol
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
Test Retest Reliability

Abstract. The aim of this research was to verify the psychometric properties of scores of the Polish version of the Future Time Perspective Scale (FTPS), developed by Carstensen and Lang (1996) . In Study 1, the sample consisted of  N = 652 participants aged 18–79 years. We performed confirmatory factor analyses to verify the dimensional structure of future time perspective and obtained a three-factor solution. In Study 2, the sample consisted of 771 participants aged 18–75 years. The results confirmed that the scores of FTPS/PL are reliable and that the FTPS/PL has the three-dimensional structure of future time perspective. The following factors were extracted: Focus on Opportunity, Focus on Life, and Focus on Time. We also tested the measurement and structural invariance of the FTPS/PL in three age groups. The results showed the FTP scale after the removal of item 4 is a measure which can be used to compare individuals differing in age. Additionally, we examined the incremental validity of FTPS/PL for life satisfaction and positive and negative affect. In Study 3, the findings showed acceptable test–retest reliability what supports the possibility of using the Polish version of the FTPS in research.

Future Time Perspective and Positive Health Practices in Young Adults: An Extension

1997 ◽  
Vol 84 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1299-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen E. Mahon ◽  
Thomas J. Yarcheski ◽  
Adela Yarcheski
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Lifestyle Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Health Practices ◽  
Slow Tempo

A sample of 69 young adults attending a public university responded to the Future Time Perspective Inventory, two subscales of the Time Experience Scales (Fast and Slow Tempo), and the Personal Lifestyle Questionnaire in classroom settings. A statistically significant correlation (.52) was found between scores for future time perspective and the ratings for the practice of positive health behaviors in young adults. This correlation was larger than those previously found for middle and late adolescents. Scores on subscales of individual health practices and future time perspective indicated statistically significant correlations for five (.25 to .56) of the six subscales. Scores on neither Fast nor Slow Tempo were related to ratings of positive health practices or ratings on subscales measuring positive health practices.

Future Time Perspective and Positive Health Practices among Young Adolescents: A Further Extension

2000 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 166-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen E. Mahon ◽  
Thomas J. Yarcheski ◽  
Adela Yarcheski
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Late Adolescents ◽  
Young Adolescents ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Lifestyle Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Health Practices

A sample of 139 young adolescents attending a middle school responded to the Future Time Perspective Inventory and the Personal Lifestyle Questionnaire in classrooms. A statistically significant correlation of .46 was found between their scores on future time perspective and ratings for the practice of positive health behaviors. This correlation was larger than those previously reported for middle and late adolescents but smaller than that found for young adults.

Future-Time Perspective: Analysis of a Facet-Designed Questionnaire

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlies E.A. Stouthard ◽  
Thea T.D. Peetsma
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Complete Recovery ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Parameter Estimates ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Facet Structure ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Facet Design

Summary: Future-time perspective for adolescents and young adults is directed towards several objects and may extend into the far or the near future. Differences in this perspective can affect motivational qualities influencing investment in one's future. A future-time perspective questionnaire was developed along these lines using facet design. It contains an object facet with the elements school and professional career, personal development, social relations, and leisure time; and an extension facet in which the elements short-term and long-term were distinguished. This study aims at empirically confirming the facet structure of the questionnaire in a sample of young adults. The questionnaire was administered to the 1993 cohort of psychology students. In total, 517 students under 25 years of age completed the questionnaire. Empirical analysis of the facet design using confirmatory factor analysis required modeling the facet structure in terms of a block diagonal model. The well-known statistical problem of finding adequate starting values for the parameter estimates in the analysis of such models with factor complexity larger than one was resolved. The analysis resulted in the complete recovery of the facet structure. It was concluded, with some reservations, that the results seem to support the validity of the questionnaire.

Development and Validation of a Career Future Time Perspective Scale

2019 ◽  
pp. 089484531988781
Author(s):  
In-Jo Park ◽  
Kyueun Han ◽  
Kyung Ryu
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Career Indecision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Rating Model ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Three Factor ◽  
Career Future

Future time perspective, like self-efficacy, can be understood both generally and domain specifically. Keeping this in mind, the current study aimed at developing and validating a Career Future Time Perspective Scale. In Study 1, we utilized an exploratory factor analysis and the Rasch rating model to ensure the construct validity of a Career Future Time Perspective Scale. The scale consisted of three factors—opportunity, value, and connectedness—across 9 items. In Study 2, we showed that this three-factor oblique scale was the most representative structure of career future time perspective. Study 3 demonstrated that after controlling for the future time perspective measures posited by Shell and Husman and Carstensen and Lang, this scale could also be used to explain: (a) career decision-making self-efficacy, (b) career-indecision tendencies, and (c) career-searching behavior. In Study 4, the reliability of the scale was demonstrated.

Psychometric Properties of the Future Time Perspective Scale for the Turkish Population: Age Differences in Predictors of Time Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Cem Soylu ◽  
Banu C. Ozekes
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Future Time ◽  
The Future

The purpose of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the Future Time Perspective Scale (FTPS-T) and examine age-group differences in the predictors of respondents’ future time perspective. Data were collected from a sample of 202 young adults (aged 18–28 years) and 127 community-dwelling older adults (aged 60–86 years). The internal consistency and test–retest methods were employed to assess the reliability of the FTPS-T, and the FTPS-T’s validity was assessed using construct- and criterion-related validity. The reliability and validity analyses demonstrated that the FTPS-T had satisfactory psychometric properties. Multiple regression analyses revealed that the strongest predictor of future time perspective in young adults was subjective psychological health, whereas chronological and subjective (i.e., physical) ages were stronger predictors among older adults. These findings indicate that subjective variables shape the perceptions of a lifetime, and the results are discussed in the context of socioemotional selectivity theory.

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