Positive affect, meaning in life, and future time perspective: An application of socioemotional selectivity theory.

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua A. Hicks ◽  
Jason Trent ◽  
William E. Davis ◽  
Laura A. King
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity Theory ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity

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.

scholarly journals Future Time Perspective

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiao-Wen Liao ◽  
Laura L. Carstensen
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Abstract. The articles in the present volume enhance the understanding of the role of perceived time in human development. Together, they point to the multifaceted nature of perceived future time and the associations different aspects of time have with goals, preferences, and well-being. Specifically, the articles showcase antecedents and consequences of perceived time left in life, consider ways to optimize measurement of future time horizons, and advance novel questions about the neural correlates of domain-specific aspects of subjective time. Findings are considered within the framework of socioemotional selectivity theory. Future directions for research on time horizons are discussed.

Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
pp. 2112-2121
Author(s):  
Helene H Fung ◽  
Steven Tsun-Wai Chu ◽  
Da Jiang ◽  
Amber Xuqian Chen ◽  
Carson Chuen Ng
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Mortality Salience ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
Cultural Worldview ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Cultural Worldviews ◽  
Study Participants

Abstract Objectives This study aims at contrasting the effects of limited future time perspective and mortality salience on goal prioritization across adulthood. Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) argues that people increasingly prioritize emotionally meaningful goals when they perceive future time as more limited. Terror management theory (TMT) suggests that mortality salience (i.e., the awareness of one’s mortality) drives people to prioritize the goal of perpetuating own existence through affirming cultural worldview. Method In this study, participants (N = 438) were randomly assigned to six conditions that primed (a) limited future time, (b) mortality salience, (c) death reflection, (d) both limited future time and mortality salience, (e) both limited future time, and death reflection, or (f) none. Results Results showed that older adults allocated significantly more resources to emotionally close recipients who supported their cultural worldviews in conditions involving future time limitation and death reflection. They also allocated less resources to emotionally not close recipients who did not support their cultural worldviews in conditions involving future time limitation. Younger adults did not show these differences. Nor did mortality salience have any effect. Discussion These results suggest that future time perspective and death reflection shift age-related goals more than mortality salience.

Future Time Perspective as an Operationalization of Existential Concerns Related to Time

2020 ◽  
pp. 002216782094506
Author(s):  
David E. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Existential Psychology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
Existential Perspective ◽  
Existential Concerns

Psychologists and other clinical therapists often focus on the psychological processes that result from the fact that human beings will one day die, not death anxiety/afterlife anxiety itself. Nevertheless, existential concerns are death concerns, and any anxiety associated with death should be understood through that lens—as resulting from concerns about death. Understanding how one views the amount of time left to live, and how this perception influences motives, goal cognitions, mood, and well-being, is of great importance from a humanistic–existential perspective. Socioemotional selectivity theory and the concept of future time perspective (FTP) capture these phenomena and have the potential to operationalize perspectives of time constraints within existential psychology. The present work attempts to show how FTP may be used to operationalize the problem of time from an existential perspective, specifically targeting the existential themes of death, meaning, isolation, and freedom. Clinical implications of considering FTP as an existential construct are discussed, as are limitations and future directions.

scholarly journals BE GENERATIVE TO ACCEPT DEATH: ROLE OF MEANING IN LIFE MODERATED BY AGE AND PERCEIVED IMPACT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S785-S786
Author(s):  
Nicole Long Ki Fung ◽  
Steven Tsun-wai Chu ◽  
Helene Hoi-lam Fung
Keyword(s):  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Future Project ◽  
Death Acceptance

Abstract Meaning-management theory (MMT) suggests living a meaningful life leads to higher death acceptance. This paper investigates how generativity, i.e. the intention to bring benefits to the next generation, can affect death acceptance through achieving meaning in life (MIL). 343 participants in Hong Kong (aged 18-90) filled in a questionnaire as part of “Age(ing) as Future” project. Generativity positively correlates with death acceptance. MIL fully mediates the effect of generativity on death acceptance (r(343)=.132, p=.014). The effect of generativity on MIL might differ by age and perceived influences of generative acts. As speculated, the mediation is moderated by Age and Transformational Future Time Perspective (TFTP; generative impact that expands future time perspective). In older adults with lower TFTP, generativity no longer predicts MIL and the mediation was nonsignificant. The results provide empirical support to MMT and emphasise the importance of perceived impact and the needs in different developmental stage.

scholarly journals Out of Sight, Out of Time? A Meta–Analytic Investigation of Procrastination and Time Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 511-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuschia M. Sirois
Keyword(s):  
Positive Affect ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Recent Theory ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Significant Positive Association

Recent theory suggests that trait procrastination is a form of temporal self–regulation failure that reflects a disjunction between the present and future self. Yet research to date is sparse and inconsistent regarding the nature of the associations of procrastination with time perspective. The current study aimed to meta–analytically summarize the evidence to date to address the question of how procrastination is linked to future and present time perspective, and to test whether stress and positive affect explained the link between procrastination and future time perspective. A search of the available literature yielded six published studies and three unpublished studies, which were combined with five unpublished data sets for a total of 14 samples with 4312 participants. The meta–analysis revealed that procrastination had a moderate and significant negative association with future time perspective, and a small but significant positive association with present time perspective. Mediation analyses across two of the samples found that high stress and low positive affect explained in part the association between procrastination and future time perspective. Overall, these findings support the notion that procrastinators focus less on the future and highlight the dynamic interrelations of affect and cognition that underlie procrastinators’ intertemporal choices. Copyright © 2014 European Association of Personality Psychology

scholarly journals COVID-Related Perceptions of the Future and Well-Being Among Older Canadian Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 512-513
Author(s):  
Hua (Poppy) Huo ◽  
Lauren Hytman ◽  
Cara Ryan ◽  
Nicky Newton
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST; Carstensen, 1993) posits that time horizons - or Future Time Perspective (FTP) - change with age and/or the priming of endings. Fung and Carstensen (2006) found that SARS-CoV in 2003 naturalistically primed fragility, with consequences for both FTP and well-being. The current SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic provides a similar context: During the early months of COVID-19, age and time horizon were related to greater emotional well-being for American adults (Carstensen et al., 2020); Dozois (2020) found that, for Canadian adults, anxiety and depression rose. The current study examines relationships between FTP, COVID-19 impact, and psychological well-being in older Canadian women (N = 190; Mage = 70.38). We found that COVID-19 impact and FTP were both related to well-being; additionally, COVID-19 impact moderated the relationship between FTP and well-being. The complexity of what remains or becomes increasingly important for older women during a global health crisis is discussed.

scholarly journals Socio-emotional selectivity in elderly and old age as a factor of subjective well-being

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.I. Melehin
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Socioemotional Selectivity ◽  
Somatic Disorders

The article shows that the presence of social support, сonfidant network is associated with positive subjective well-being in elderly (55 - 74 years) and old age (75-90 years). However, certain types of social interaction can be considered as predictors of affective disorders and chronic somatic disorders in later ages as in normal aging and in neurodegenerative disorders. The purpose of this article is to familiarize professionals in the mental health of people of later ages with the theory of socio-emotional selectivity (Socioemotional Selectivity Theory) L.L. Carstensen, who makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the specificity and mechanisms of selection in social interaction in elderly and old age. Central mechanisms of socio-emotional selection in the later ages are the awareness of time and limited future time perspective, which enhances the awareness of mortality.

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