This study investigated the temporal orientation of delinquents and nondelinquents while controlling institutionalization. Four groups were selected: institutionalized delinquents; institutionalized nondelinquents; noninstitutionalized delinquents; and noninstitutionalized nondelinquents. The affective attitudes of the nondelinquents toward the…

Teaching techniques for developing a sense of historical time among students are presented. (DE)

A sample of 144 children from nursery school, first, and third grades were given a series of problems in which they were required to judge which of 2 synchronous events was longer in duration and to rationalize their judgments. (Author/JMB)

Argues in favor of history instruction for children to promote citizenship education, the construction of social world, and temporal understanding. (PCB)

Analyzed issues involved in making time pass as quickly as possible, a major difficulty facing draftees during initiation into the army. Using participant observation of basic training in the Israeli Defence Forces, examined cyclical perspective draftees were forced to adopt in place of usual linear one, and various ways they tried to overcome…

Examined the relative impact of three dimensions on birth timing: historical time, individual or couple time, and socioeconomic background characteristics, utilizing a birth-interval approach. Findings include a strong impact of individual time in all cases, a significant impact of historical time for whites but not blacks, and a greater impact of…

Examined the impact of time, life space domains, and gender on postdivorce adjustment in Israel. Findings indicate improvement in subjective well-being within two to four years; sex differences in distress and adjustment; and greater sex differences in adjustment over time. There were fewer differences in structural divergence between domains over…

Western and Chinese children six years of age judged that an initially intense positive or negative emotional reaction would wane gradually over time. Children four years of age were less consistent, but, when steps were taken to insure their comprehension, they too judged that emotion wanes gradually over time. (Author/RH)

Investigates strategies of 10-year-olds and 14-year-olds in tasks requiring prospective memory. Subjects were instructed to perform activities after waiting 30 minutes. As predicted, strategic time-monitoring occurred more frequently in the home than in the laboratory. Emphasizes the power of the laboratory as a contrasting context for…

The tendency of more than 1100 males and females aged 17-92 to daydream about the past, present, and future was determined. Contrary to common belief, no linear relation between age and daydreaming about the past was observed, and all temporal orientations were of near equal strength at all ages. (Author)

The author lists the advantages of component models and suggest their substitution for sequence models, which emphasize time rather than space relationships, in the teaching of geomorphology. (JH)

Approximately 180 ninth grade boys and girls showed no significant differences on median time perspective attributed to seven expected life events. (DM)

Findings of the present inquiry indicate the relevance of cognitive considerations in studies of time perception. (Authors)