The current study proposes that personal need fulfillment (relatedness, generativity, identity, growth, and finances) predicts early and late retirement intentions. The personal needs of 160 full-time older employees were measured by personal goals, job satisfactions, job characteristics, and intrinsic motivation. Results suggest that the personal…

As a measure of time perspective, a variation of the life graph was administered to 47 men and 47 women ranging from 24 to 60 years old. Age was found to relate to past temporal dominance. In life drawings, events depicted as markers had no relationship to age. (Author/ABL)

Explored relationship between elderly women's (N=145) death anxiety, purposefulness, and personal experience of time. Results indicated high death anxiety was associated with less purposefulness, sense of harrassment and pressure by time, discontinuity and lack of direction in lives, inclination to procrastinate, and disposition towards being…

Examined relationships between age, value of time over both short and long term, perceived time to death, self-perceived activity levels, and estimates of brief time intervals in a sample of older institutionalized males. Time intervals were increasingly underestimated with advancing age, indicating that time units are short with increasing age.…

Discusses difficulties in data collection which arise from the complex nature of time perspective and from characteristics associated with older respondents. An awareness of certain basic points can enhance the quality and accuracy of data collection. A number of generic methodological considerations are discussed, and various suggestions offered.…

The time judgments of the older participants were significantly and systematically determined by a metronome rate. Results are consistent with the notion of increased field-dependence among older persons and suggest that their greater social conformity and their inability to ignore irrelevant stimuli might also be explicable. (Author)

In seven studies, 7300 U.S., 891 Iranian, 534 Indian, and 216 Ghanaese persons aged four to 99 were interviewed regarding their consciousness. There were cross-national differences. (Author)

Explored the roles chronological age and gender play in subjective time experience (STE). Found STE to vary widely among individuals, some being "accurate,""retarded," or "advanced." Suggests males were more retarded in STE, and chronological age plays a key role in transitions in STE. (Author/RC)

The impact of early life events that take place under specific historical and societal circumstances on adult development have rarely been investigated in old age. We examined whether having started a family in young adulthood was related to the contents of possible selves generated by women aged 85 to 100+ in the Berlin Aging Study (N = 129; M…

Examined future time perspective and its association with change in food habits among elderly persons (N=805). Findings suggest that the elderly change food habits and that there is an association of positive or negative food habit changes with a positive or negative future time perspective. (Author/NB)

The aim of the study was to highlight the oldest old people's view of their future from a perspective of philosophy of life. Data was collected by means of life story interviews with 15 persons. The analysis was performed by utilizing a phenomenological hermeneutic method and the interpretation was guided by the conceptual framework of philosophy…

The model of aging that people construct influences interpretations of and responses to actual situations when they occur, as well as preparatory actions that people take. Thus the question of what people foresee for themselves and the process by which they construct and revise this subjective aging trajectory has implications for such issues as…