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Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan
An individual’s outlook on society can change over time and can be related to both their physical and mental health. Here, we developed an instrument to measure outlooks on the past and future in relation to the present in 413 adults ranging in age from 18 to 80 years. Exploratory and confirmatory f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34604460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214211046080 |
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author | Silaj, Katie M. Schwartz, Shawn T. Castel, Alan D. McDonough, Ian M. |
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description | An individual’s outlook on society can change over time and can be related to both their physical and mental health. Here, we developed an instrument to measure outlooks on the past and future in relation to the present in 413 adults ranging in age from 18 to 80 years. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on independent samples and test–retest reliability was assessed in a subset of participants. Construct validity of the two past and future scales was assessed by relating them to 1) pre-existing scales measuring related constructs, and 2) beliefs and safety behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The final Bright or Bleak Scale (BOBS) consists of a past and future scale, each with two factors measuring societal and personal outlooks. Brighter future societal and personal outlooks were positively associated with longer future time perspectives, while self-reporting a higher likelihood of already having contracted COVID-19 was related to bleaker past societal and personal outlooks. |
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spelling | pubmed-84817202021-10-01 Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan Silaj, Katie M. Schwartz, Shawn T. Castel, Alan D. McDonough, Ian M. Gerontol Geriatr Med Original Manuscript An individual’s outlook on society can change over time and can be related to both their physical and mental health. Here, we developed an instrument to measure outlooks on the past and future in relation to the present in 413 adults ranging in age from 18 to 80 years. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on independent samples and test–retest reliability was assessed in a subset of participants. Construct validity of the two past and future scales was assessed by relating them to 1) pre-existing scales measuring related constructs, and 2) beliefs and safety behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The final Bright or Bleak Scale (BOBS) consists of a past and future scale, each with two factors measuring societal and personal outlooks. Brighter future societal and personal outlooks were positively associated with longer future time perspectives, while self-reporting a higher likelihood of already having contracted COVID-19 was related to bleaker past societal and personal outlooks. SAGE Publications 2021-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8481720/ /pubmed/34604460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214211046080 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Manuscript Silaj, Katie M. Schwartz, Shawn T. Castel, Alan D. McDonough, Ian M. Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan |
title | Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan |
title_full | Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan |
title_fullStr | Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan |
title_full_unstemmed | Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan |
title_short | Is the Future Bright or Bleak? Assessing Past and Future Outlooks Across the Adult Lifespan |
title_sort | is the future bright or bleak? assessing past and future outlooks across the adult lifespan |
topic | Original Manuscript |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8481720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34604460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23337214211046080 |
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