The role of time and time perspective in age-related processes: Introduction to the special issue.
There currently appears to be a general consensus on the relationship between time perspective and aging, such that (a) future time is perceived as more limited with age and (b) older people are more present-focused and less future-focused than younger people. At the same time, there are debates about whether these age differences are positively related to well-being and to what extent there are boundary conditions beyond which these age differences would cease to occur. The 8 manuscripts included in this Special Issue attempt to shed light on these debates. In doing so, they refine the dominant theoretical perspective on the topic-socioemotional selectivity theory-and introduce new theoretical perspectives. New measures and methodologies for studying time perspective and aging are also discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Helene H
HH
Fung
Department of Psychology, Northeastern University.
Derek M
DM
Isaacowitz
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009462:Neurology / Q000639:trends; D013995:Time; D055815:Young Adult