Can being past,present or future focused affect our mental health?

Hi all!

My name is Gemma Perman, and I am a second year Trainee Clinical Psychologist based at the University of Surrey.

I am conducting an online study as part of my Doctorate thesis to find out if the characteristic way that someone tends to focus on either the past, present, or future (time perspective) has an impact on their subjective well-being (life satisfaction and happiness). In general terms, time perspective describes an unconscious cognitive process that attempts to make sense and give order to everyday experience by drawing on past memories, present moment experiences and hypothesised future consequences (e.g. Zimbardo and Boyd, 1999).

I would be really grateful if you would be able to spend 15 minutes filling in my online survey. Anyone who is aged between 18 to 74 and lives in the UK can complete it.

Findings from this research could have important implications for the development of psychological interventions aiming to enhance someone’s level of well-being by altering their time perspective.

My supervisor is Linda Morison and this research has received favourable ethical opinion by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Surrey.

To find out more or to complete the survey, please click on the following link:

http://surveys.fahs.surrey.ac.uk/how_pe ... ience_time

Thank you!

Gemma

g.perman@surrey.ac.uk
l.morison@surrey.ac.uk