Tests of Temporal Perspective: Do They Measure the Same Construct?
- 1 December 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 21 (3) , 849-852
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1967.21.3.849
Abstract
This study presents correlations among nine measures of “temporal perspective.” If these measures reflect the same explanatory construct, inter-correlations should be high. This assumption appears untenable, however, since the only correlations (41 Ss) achieving significance are artifactual in nature, e.g., negative correlations between scores derived from forced-choice alternatives. Caution is indicated in generalizing from research demonstrating relationships between some psychological variable and any single measure of “temporal perspective,” the unifactorial composition of the construct is questioned, and additional work on test development is recommended.Keywords
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