title: Motivation and future temporal orientation: a test of the self-handicapping hypothesis.
abstract: Self-handicapping motivation refers to the likelihood a person will project personal ambition into the future, make a pessimistic judgement, and then mobilise effort in the present to avoid an anticipated negative outcome. It should, therefore, be a correlate of future time perspective. This study showed for a sample of 120 first-year students that, whilst future time perspective did strongly predict scores on a measure of self-handicapping motivation, neither variable was a useful predictor of outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behaviourial Science, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Lennings
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D013998:Time Perception