Food Habits and Future Time: An Exploratory Study of Age-Appropriate Food Habits among the Elderly

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy A. Shifflett ◽  
William A. McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Food Habits ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Food Habit ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Future Time

This exploratory research effort examines future time perspective and its association with a behavioral change, i.e., food habits, among a sample of elderly persons. Demographic and social conditions under which a positive or negative future time may be associated with changes in food habits are explored. The findings suggest that the elderly do make changes in their food habits, and there is an association of positive or negative food habit changes with a positive or negative future time perspective. The future time perspective and the food habit changes are couched in certain types of demographic and social conditions such as with whom one lives, recent widowhood, health status, and sex.

Extension temporelle des buts et âge chronologique au cours de la vieillesse

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Léandre Bouffard ◽  
Etienne Bastin ◽  
Sylvie Lapierre
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Similar Tendency ◽  
Future Extension ◽  
Negative Factors

ABSTRACTFuture time perspective (FTP), defined as the temporal extension of goals, is considered, by some authors, to be increasingly limited in older age. Restriction in FTP is sometimes observed in the elderly but could be explained by various factors other than age. In order to verify this hypothesis, the aspirations or goals of 708 elderly (aged 65 to 90 years) were collected with a sentence completion technique. An index of future extension was established after the analysis of answers. The results confirm that there is no relationship between FTP and chronological age for the elderly. A reduced FTP is observed for women. A similar tendency is found for subjects of low socio-economic status and for subjects of low educational level. FTP is also relatively stable for healthy and autonomous subjects and it increases in subjects of low autonomy who are still living at home. This research shows that, even in the presence of negative factors and with individual differences taken into account, elderly persons have goals and are open to the future.

Different Future Time Perspectives Interplay in Predicting Life Satisfaction

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Angel Y. Li ◽  
Helene H. Fung ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Frieder R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
Future Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.

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