scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Future Perspective in Predicting Turkish University Students’ Beliefs About Global Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-52
Author(s):  
Deniz Ateş ◽  
Gaye Teksöz ◽  
Hamide Ertepınar
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
University Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Perceived Knowledge

AbstractRecent studies indicate that limited understanding about causes and its potential impacts of climate change and fault beliefs by people across different countries of the world including Turkey is a real challenge. Acceptance of climate change as a real threat, believing its existence, and knowing causes and consequences are very significant for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Therefore, exploring underlying factors shaping or affecting beliefs of people is needed for designing educational interventions for a change in individuals’ attitudes and behaviours. The main purpose of the present study was to explore how and to what extent future time perspective, perceived knowledge about global climate change, and environmental attitudes explain the university students’ beliefs about occurrence, causes and consequences of GCC. A quantitative research was conducted with the participation of one thousand, five hundred and eighty undergraduate students (n=1580) of METU and the data was gathered through Future Perspective Related Beliefs about Global Climate Change Scale. The study findings suggested that ecocentric attitude and perceived knowledge are mainly two influential factors for the undergraduate students’ beliefs about global climate change. Future time perspective’s contribution although low, was found to be significant in beliefs about GCC. The results of this study would shed light to evaluate and improve educational programs and curriculum in higher education, and can be a guide because Turkish literature does not serve any research that seek students’ future time perspective related to global climate change.

Knowledge of global climate change: view of Iranian university students

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadegh Salehi ◽  
Zahra Pazuki Nejad ◽  
Hossein Mahmoudi ◽  
Stefan Burkart
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
University Students ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate

Future Events Test: Equivalent Forms and Criminality

1981 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-278
Author(s):  
W. A. M. Black ◽  
Paula Bennett ◽  
A. R. Wards
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Events ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Male Prisoners

In a study with 48 undergraduate students (24 male, 24 female) two forms of the Future Events Test correlated only moderately ( r = 0.43). In a further study, with offenders, using Form II of the test 40 male prisoners (25 Europeans, 15 Maoris) had a lower mean score than did 40 male parolees (25 Europeans, 15 Maoris) but the difference was significant for Maoris only. This suggests that the effects of imprisonment may be greater for Maoris than Europeans by inducing a foreshortening of future time perspective.

scholarly journals The Predictive Ability of the Dimensions of the Future Time Perspective in Self-regulated Learning among Yarmouk University Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Faisal K. Al-Rabee ◽  
Abdelnaser D. Al-Jarrah ◽  
Mohammad A. Melhem
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Yarmouk University

The study aimed to identify the most common dimensions of the future time perspective and to know the level of self-regulated learning among Yarmouk University students. It also aimed to investigate the predictive ability of the dimensions of the future time perspective in self-regulated learning. The study sample consisted of 704 students, 335 males and 369 females, who were selected based on a convenience sample method from among the students enrolled in the compulsory university requirements during the summer semester of the academic year 2017/2018. To achieve the objectives of the study, the Zimbardo and Boyed’s (1999) measure was used to measure the future time perspective, and Purdie’s scale for measuring self-regulated learning. The results showed that the future dimension was the most common among the sample of the study, and that the level of self-regulated learning was moderate, whether at the total score or the various dimensions. The study concluded that the dimensions of the future time perspective explained 18.8% of the variance in self-regulated learning.

scholarly journals Old and Out? A social network approach towards age, self-responsibility, and their effects on employability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Emanuel Froehlich
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Older People ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Older Employees

The share of older people on the workplace is increasing and thereby also the dependence of organizations on older employees rises. However, at the moment, older people are in general not well integrated into the workforce. This stresses the need for continuous learning in order to stay employable also in higher ages.Unfortunately, several factors limit the learning potential of older people in practice. Next to a decline in fluid intelligence, several negative stereotypes about old people exist on the workplace, especially in connection with learning and change. Empirical findings about age and learning on the workplace are inconsistent and give little guidance. We therefore aim to take a fresh look on the learning of older employees and focus especially on personal antecedents (goal orientation and future perspective) and the feedback exchange behavior of employees employing a social network analysis approach. Specifically, we hypothesize an effect of chronological age on goal orientation, which is partially mediated by future time perspective. A learning goal orientation and a open future time perspective are in turn hypothesized to be positively related to formal and informal learning (feedback seeking), which will eventually increase employability.After the basic model has been validated in different sectors and countries, a longitudinal field-study will be conducted in order to get a even more detailed look on the learning processes at the workplace.

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