Longitudinal associations between time perspective and life satisfaction across adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Time perspective is an important predictor of well-being. How time is represented, is itself subject to developmental change. A time perspective dominated by the future is increasingly replaced by one focused on the present and past as remaining lifetime decreases. These age-related changes supposedly are associated with higher subjective well-being. Previous studies yielded heterogeneous results. However, these studies mostly investigated one dimension of time perspective and did not include younger and/or middle-aged adults. Thus, we investigated how changes in four facets of time perspective (past-orientation, concreteness of future time, obsolescence, and attitudes towards finitude) were related to changes in life and domain-specific satisfaction and if these relations were moderated b

SUBMITTER: Wirth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11332047 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature