scholarly journals THE MARITAL STATUS AS PREDICTOR OF DIFFERENCES IN TIME PERSPECTIVE AND OPTIMISTIC-PESSIMISTIC ATTITUDES AMONG WOMEN

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Natasha Angelova ◽  
Magdalena Trencheva
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Family Status ◽  
Future Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Method Of Evaluation

The search for relations, dependencies, and influences between marital status and mental phenomena outlines an accurate and clear picture not only of the family status as a social phenomenon but also as a mental field, where our awareness as individuals is directly or indirectly linked. In this sense, the differences among women with different marital context and the optimistic and pessimistic attitudes as well as the expectations regarding the past, present, and future that were investigated in this research. Four different marital status groups were identified and are shown the differences in time perspective and optimistic-pessimistic attitudes between them. The survey was conducted with 140 women aged between 32 and 67 years M=41.09 SD=6.58. The research methods are Method of evaluation of optimism and negative expectations, published by Velichkov and Radoslavova (2005) and Time perspective Questionnaire by Philip Zimbardo, adapted by Slavchov and Virmozelova (2008). The results verify the supposition that there are statistically significant (p<.05) differences between the four groups of women with different marital status, with regard to their attitudes to optimism and pessimism as well as to their time perspective. The group of married women shows the highest result in Past-positive time perspective and Future time perspective, in comparison with the divorced that have the lowest scores on the same factors Past-positive time perspective and Future time perspective. At the same time, the divorced women experience the highest level of optimism compared to the other groups. Keywords: time perspective, optimism - pessimism, marital status.

scholarly journals Time Perspective, Hope and Self-Regulation among Preparatory Year University Students: Exploring the Connections

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-96
Author(s):  
Iman Osman Mukhtar Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Future Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Positive Time ◽  
Preparatory Year

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between time perspective, hope and self-regulation among foundation year students at a Malaysian public university. A survey questionnaire on the three constructs was completed by 118 Malay students aged between 18 to 21. The findings showed a significant positive correlation between the future time perspective and self-regulation (r = 0.251, p = 0.007). However, the association is a weak one. Likewise, a significant relationship was found between hope and two of the temporal orientations, i.e., the future orientation (r = 0.399, p = 0.001) and the past positive at r = 0.271, p = 0.003., which is also considered a weak relationship. However, no significant association was observed between the past positive time perspective and students’ self-regulation. On the contrary, the past negative and present-fatalistic time orientations have a significant negative relation with hope at r = - 0.308, p = 0.001 and r = - 0.207, p = 0.028, respectively. A similar result was obtained for the association between self-regulation and the PN orientation at r = - 0.290, p = 0.002. It was also found that hope and students’ self-regulation are strongly correlated (r = 0.268, p = 0.004). In essence, the results imply that students with a high future time orientation are likely to have high levels of hope and self-regulation. Therefore, time perspective, especially the future orientation, and self-regulation skills could be important intervention factors for addressing students’ academic obstacles. The findings of this study are beneficial for counselors, educators, and supervisors in designing intervention programs to help students become more positive and optimistic individuals.

Future Time Perspective Moderates Consumer Responses to Nostalgic Advertising

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilyoung Ju ◽  
Susan Bluck ◽  
Hsiao-Wen Liao
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Consumer Response ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity Theory ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
The Past

Abstract. Humans remember their past and consider their future. Nostalgic advertising, focused on the personal past, increases positive consumer response to products. This research examines how future time perspective (FTP) moderates that effect. Based on socioemotional selectivity theory, the products studied represent goals individuals have when time feels limited (i.e., camera: familiar, socially focused, emotionally meaningful) or open-ended (i.e., VR-One: novel, information-focused, entertaining). As expected, ad-evoked nostalgia heightens positive consumer response to the camera, increasingly so when FTP feels limited (Study 1; N = 288). For the VR-One, ad-evoked nostalgia again increases positive response but less so when time feels limited (Study 2; N = 283). Thinking about how the past and the future interact to influence consumer preferences in adulthood is discussed.

Time Perspective, Awareness of Narrative Identity, and the Perceived Coherence of Past Experiences Among Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
David John Hallford ◽  
Nicholas J. Fava ◽  
David Mellor
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Past Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Balanced Time Perspective ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. The ability to mentally project oneself into the past and future is theoretically central to perception of a salient and cohesive narrative identity. Despite these theorized links, to date, the relationship between time perspective and narrative identity has not been empirically studied. We examined the association between these constructs in a sample of 212 participants ( Mage = 28.3 years, SD = 10.9) who completed the Balanced Time Perspective Scale and the Awareness of Narrative Identity Questionnaire (ANIQ). Congruent with our hypotheses, stronger past perspective and a bias for past perspective over future were associated with a stronger awareness of having a narrative identity and the perception of temporal, causal, and thematic coherency of past experiences. When the past and future time perspective scales were examined together as predictors of the ANIQ subscales, past time perspective emerged as a significant predictor of stronger awareness of a narrative identity through dimensions of perceived coherence of past experiences, whereas future time perspective was a weak, direct predictor of lower awareness. The findings indicate that individual differences in time perspective, and in particular a bias for past time perspective, are associated with a potentially more adaptive perception of narrative identity.

Patterns of Health Behavior, Life Satisfaction, and Future Time Perspective in a Group of Old Aged Women: Data of 'Survivors' from a Longitudinal Study on Aging

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Insa Fooken
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Objective Health ◽  
Health Related

A widespread "old woman"-stereotype depicts the aging female as hypochondriac and illnessstricken. Considering several health-related variables (objective health assessment done by a physician; subjective health ratings on physical well-being and perceived stress; the degree of concern about health as a major theme of life; coping styles with regard to health status) data of 39 old aged women, born between 1890 and 1905 and grouped according to the manifestation of marital status, from the Bonn longitudinal study of aging were carefully analyzed. Evidence was yielded for 'future time perspective' being an important aspect of the psychological construct 'life satisfaction' because of having a strong impact on health-related behavior. Furthermore, some rather distinct patterns of dealing with health-related aspects were sketched out according to the specific manifestation of marital status. In general, the popular stereotype could not be supported: congruence between objective and subjective health ratings was more common than the reverse. While some women rather experienced physical decline, there were others who manifested "transcendence from bodily restriction" thus giving proof of growth-oriented developmental change and a high degree of plasticity and flexibility in very old age.

scholarly journals HOPE AND TIME PERSPECTIVE

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

he perception of oneself and the world that is based on hope coexists not only with focus on various aspects of earthly existence but also with extending beyond the lifetime, with initiating the transcendent- and transcendental time perspective. The purpose of our studies is to analyse the relationship between hope and time perspective, belief in life-after-death and the prospect of future beyond earthly existence. Hope provides the basis for our existence and attitude towards the world, but also acts as a factor that stimulates our thinking about the future and implementation of earlier projects despite obstacles. Therefore, in the studies, a hypothesis has been posed that a higher level of basic hope characterises persons with higher level of future time perspective as well as with belief in life-after-death and transcendent- and transcendental-future. Furthermore, in accordance with the Snyder’s concept of hope, the relationship between the level of hope and the time. The study was carried out among 242 participants aged 16-78 (M = 38.45; SD = 15.1), including 114 men and 128 women. The participants were asked to define their attitude towards life-after-death and to complete questionnaires determining their level of Basic Hope (BHI-12), Goal-Directed Hope (KNS) as well as Time Perspective (ZPTI) and Future beyond earthly existence (KPTT). There are differences between persons having different attitudes towards Life-After-Death in the level of Basic Hope (F (2.238) = 12.7, p<0.01), on the Future scale of ZPTI (F = 4.29; p = 0.015) and on the Transcendent-Future and Transcendental-Future scales of KPTT. Hope is related to a changeable level of the Time Perspective. It has been noted that there is a relationships between Basic Hope and all scales of attitude towards the past, present, and the future. Goal-Directed Hope is most strongly associated with Past-Positive and 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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