Opposing Changes in Past and Future Time Orientations with Age

1992 ◽  
Vol 75 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1242-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim A. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
College Students ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Future Orientations

The bidirectional model of psychological time, that past and future orientations change in opposite directions with increasing age, was tested. Age was positively related to the number of life experiences recalled by 67 college students from the distant past but was negatively correlated with life experiences expected to occur in the near or distant future. This simultaneous and inverse adjustment of past and future orientations with age adds further support to a bidirectional model consistent with field theory.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Future Time Perspective and Psychological Violence Among Chinese College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuiyun Zhi ◽  
Jian Yang ◽  
Yongjin Chen ◽  
Niyazi Akebaijiang ◽  
Meimei Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Psychological Violence ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Early Experiences ◽  
Future Orientations ◽  
The Relationship

Based on early experiences and current conditions, a future time perspective influences college students’ behaviors, while psychological violence critically threatens college students’ health. This study explored the relationship between a future time perspective and the psychological violence of perpetrators based on an online investigation of 1424 college students (87.1% women) aged 17 to 31 in China. The results showed that a future time perspective is significantly positively associated with psychological violence. Positive future orientation is negatively associated with psychological violence. Negative and confused future orientations are positively associated with psychological violence. These findings support the need to introduce an intervention regarding a future time perspective to reduce psychological violence among college students.

Mindfulness and Transformation in a College Classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Martin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Community College ◽  
Community College Students ◽  
Transformational Learning ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Educational Experience ◽  
College Classroom ◽  
College Classrooms

Community college classrooms afford students from a variety of backgrounds the possibility to engage and inform one another with respect to their unique perspectives and life experiences. Unfortunately, in many of these situations, students find themselves self-critical, and their internal comparisons with others may impede the potential of a transformational educational experience. This article discusses the benefit of utilizing mindfulness meditation as a way of bringing students more in touch with their internal processes, which in turn allows them greater availability to others in the classroom and thus creates more transformational learning experiences for these community college students.

Comparing Life Experiences of College Students with Differing Courses of Schizophrenia in Korea: Case Studies

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung-Mi Sung ◽  
Soyaja Kim ◽  
Kathryn R. Puskar ◽  
Euisook Kim
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Life Experiences

scholarly journals The foreign-language discount effect: Using English increases intertemporal discount rates through more distant future perception

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuepei Xu ◽  
Zhu-Yuan Liang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Rational Decision ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Distant Future ◽  
Rational Decision Making ◽  
Intertemporal Preferences ◽  
Intertemporal Decisions ◽  
Effect Experiment

Although the foreign language effect (FLE) has been associated with more rational decision-making, we do not know whether it can exert this effect on intertemporal decisions. Native speakers of languages with a high future-time reference (FTR) have been found to produce higher rates of discounting, but we do not yet know whether intertemporal preferences can also be modulated when high FTR language is used by a foreign speaker. Across two experiments (N=486), we found that switching from a low-FTR native language (Chinese) to a high-FTR foreign language (English) was consistently linked with higher rates of discounting, what we call the foreign-language discount effect. These results, which run counter to the mechanism proposed by FLE (Experiment 1), show that a more distant future perception is the chief factor underlying the observed effect (Experiment 2). Our findings call for caution in the use of the FLE as a beneficial debiasing effect.

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