ArticleEurope's journal of psychology2021
The Meaning of Temporal Balance: Does Meaning in Life Mediate the Relationship Between a Balanced Time Perspective and Mental Health?
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- The three-dimensional structure of temporal framing in European adults: balancedness in past, future, and present time perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Our ways will not change: Future collective continuity increases present prosocial considerations.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- Ayurvedic protocols of chronic pain management: spatiotemporality as present moment awareness and embodied time.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Time Balance and Family Functioning: The Role of Time Perspective in the Cohesion and Adaptability of Families with Adolescents.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Present hedonism and future time perspectives predicting hypersexuality and problematic pornography use.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Positive Side of Maximization: Linking Maximization Tendency With Meaning in Life Through Time Perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The construct of a Balanced Time Perspective (BTP) predicts a variety of indices of mental health and well-being. We argue that one possible intermediate link between BTP and well-being may be an individual's sense of presence of meaning in life. Participants ranging in age from 19 to 88 years (N = 192) completed two measures of time perspective (Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory [ZTPI] and the modified Balanced Time Perspective Scale [mBTPS]), mental health, personality, and meaning in life. Correlational results showed that a BTP, mental health, and meaning in life were positively interrelated. Hierarchical regression models showed that a BTP (as measured with the mBTPS) explained additional variance in mental health beyond demographic, personality, and ZTPI scores. Mediation analyses showed that meaning served as a significant indirect link between BTP and well-being.
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