Future Time Perspective as an Operationalization of Existential Concerns Related to Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6436067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David E Reed (0000-0003-0109-5999, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 219-232 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167820945067 |
| OpenAlex | W3046772221 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Psychologists and other clinical therapists often focus on the psychological processes that result from the fact that human beings will one day die, not death anxiety/afterlife anxiety itself. Nevertheless, existential concerns are death concerns, and any anxiety associated with death should be understood through that lens—as resulting from concerns about death. Understanding how one views the amount of time left to live, and how this perception influences motives, goal cognitions, mood, and well-being, is of great importance from a humanistic–existential perspective. Socioemotional selectivity theory and the concept of future time perspective (FTP) capture these phenomena and have the potential to operationalize perspectives of time constraints within existential psychology. The present work attempts to show how FTP may be used to operationalize the problem of time from an existential perspective, specifically targeting the existential themes of death, meaning, isolation, and freedom. Clinical implications of considering FTP as an existential construct are discussed, as are limitations and future directions
Anxiety · Death anxiety · Epistemology · Existentialism · Meaning (existential · Operationalization · Perspective (graphical · Psychotherapist · Terror management theory · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
Event-Related Potentials, Emotion, and Emotion Regulation
Time counts
The implications of death for health
Within-Person Relationships Among Daily Self-Esteem, Need Satisfaction, and Authenticity
Public Self and Private Self
Tapping the humanistic potential of self-determination theory
Death Anxiety in Older Adults
Contrasting the Effects of Mortality Salience and Future Time Limitation on Goal Prioritization in Older and Younger Adults
The Last Word
Future time, death anxiety, and life purpose among older adults
Systematic Review of Existential Anxiety Instruments
Attachment, Self-Esteem, Worldviews, and Terror Management
Humanistic Psychology
Taking time seriously
Trait self and true self
Two Decades of Terror Management Theory
Negotiations between health and social goals over the lifespan
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |