Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory

[Clueless Morgan]

Found this online quiz about how our perspectives about time affect our perceptions about life.

http://www.thetimeparadox.com/zimbardo-t...inventory/

Here are my results, I'm interested in what everyone else's are:

Time Perspective

Past-negative: 2.30
Past-positive: 4.00
Present-fatalistic: 2.00
Present-hedonistic: 2.67
Future: 3.69

(NOTE: There's a "transcendental future" time perspective, too, but it looks like there's a separate test to determine that.)

Here's the graph of the results of others to compare where you fall on the time scales, with the red line being the researcher's idea of what an ideal time perspective would be:



Also, here a the video that talks about what the results mean in terms of how the time perspective affect your life (how being past-negative and present-fatalistic can affect you)




The end of the video talks about how this approach to time and how it affects us is being used to treat veterans with PTSD and getting them to be more future-oriented and less past-negative.

Interesting stuff.