The Generation Gap: Time Orientation
- 1 June 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Gerontologist
- Vol. 12 (2) , 117-119
- https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/12.2_part_1.117
Abstract
Three investigations involving the administration of consciousness sampling (“What were you just thinking about?”) to 3,839 persons provided evidence that adults think most frequently about the present, next most about the future, and least about the past. While numerous theorists contend that the old think more frequently about the past than other groups, only a tendency for the old to think less frequently about the future and more frequently about the present was uncovered.Keywords
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