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Involvement in four future events as a function of temporal distance
Author(s) -
LUNDBERG ULF,
WRIGHT JOHAN M.,
FRANKENHAEUSER MARIANNE,
OLSON ULFJOHAN
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1975.tb00155.x
Subject(s) - psychology , event (particle physics) , value (mathematics) , function (biology) , social psychology , zero (linguistics) , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology , linguistics , philosophy
.— A total of 91 Swedish high‐school students, in four groups, estimated their degree of involvement in each of 4 potential future events, which were assumed to occur at 5 alternative points in time within the next 75 years. In addition, estimates were made of the relative importance of the events as well as of their subjective probability and influenceability. Factor analysis revealed two different time‐involvement relations: (1) involvement decreasing slowly with increasing temporal distance for the two next decades. and then rapidly approaching zero, and (2) involvement decreasing rapidly for the nearest decades, and then slowly approaching an asymptotic value. Subjects representing the first trend gave consistently higher estimates of event probability. Relative involvement for the events was judged differently by subjects in natural‐science and social‐science lines of education.