Thinking further ahead: Can temporal distance in thinking about one's future influence affect experienced by people with low self-esteem?

Lachowicz‐Tabaczek, Kinga; Bajcar, Beata

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.039

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“…Although previous studies have indicated that a future time perspective has a positive impact on study outcomes (Denovan et al, 2020), the underlying mechanism is still unclear. Self-esteem is a critical internal driver of individual behavior (Lachowicz-Tabaczek & Bajcar, 2018). According to COR theory (Hobfoll, 1989) and expectancy-value theory (Fang, 2016), future focus drives students to collect resources to build higher self-esteem, which encourages college students to be more engaged in their study.…”

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How does future focus promote study engagement? A moderated mediation model of self‐esteem and dispositional awe

Zhang

Feng

2020

Psychology in the Schools

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Sufficient engagement in studying promotes students' academic performance and ability to compete in the job market. In this study, we explore the role of future focus and dispositional awe in stimulating college students' study engagement. To examine our hypotheses, we conducted a questionnaire survey with 237 students from a national college in China. The results indicate that future focus is positively related to study engagement and that self-esteem mediates this relationship. Moreover, the mediating effect of self-esteem is moderated by dispositional awe such that the mediation relationship is weaker when the level of awe is higher. Implications and directions for future research are discussed. K E Y W O R D S dispositional awe, future focus, self-esteem, study engagement 1 | INTRODUCTION "You have to study hard for a better future!" Students have always heard these words from their teachers or parents and it's a common and effective incentive. Besides, scholars reveal that focusing on one's future is the key to goal pursuit in meaningful life (Andre et al., 2019). However, numerous students are indulged in the present temptation (e.g., internet or social networking sites) when they come to colleges. These activities may have many negative effects on study engagement, such as skipping class, playing games in classes, losing interest in learning, refusing to participate in social activities, and even dropping out (Li et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2018). These students ignore the truth that higher education is future-oriented as it contains the utility

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How does future focus promote study engagement? A moderated mediation model of self‐esteem and dispositional awe

Zhang

Feng

2020

Psychology in the Schools

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“…Our studies contributed to a better understanding of how appraising one’s future self may influence current task performance. We replicated the positive effect of thinking about own distant (vs. near) future on future self-appraisals, called here the future self-enhancement effect (Heller et al, 2011; Kanten & Teigen, 2008; Lachowicz-Tabaczek & Bajcar, 2017, 2018; Stephan et al, 2015). Across four experiments, we found beneficial consequences of future self-enhancement effect for current task performance as evidenced by a positive indirect effect of thinking in the distant (vs. near) future on the current task performance via future self-appraisals.…”

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Thinking About Distant Future Self Leads to Better Current Task Performance Through Higher Future Self-Appraisals

2023

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People tend to appraise their distant future self better than their near future self ( future self-enhancement effect). An open question is whether this tendency has implications for current performance. In two sets of experiments ( N = 554), after envisioning their near or distant future, participants made future self-appraisals and performed an anagram task. We observed that future self-enhancement effect leads to better task performance, regardless of whether the future self was appraised in an absolute (Experiment 1a) or comparative (Experiment 1b) way. Experiment 2a additionally revealed that future self-enhancement effect might facilitate better task performance through increased current self-evaluations. In each study, future self-enhancement effect suppressed the negative, direct impact of envisioning one’s distant (vs. near) future on task performance.

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“…In terms of judgmental dimensions, central (compared to peripheral) self-conceptions are high on positivity, self-descriptiveness, certainty, and importance (Sedikides 1993). People regard their current central self-conceptions (e.g., moral values) as more likely to characterize their future selves (Sun & Goodwin 2020), in part because they desire and expect a higher rate of improvement on those self-conceptions (Molouki & Bartels 2017), and this is especially true of individuals who are dispositionally optimistic (Lachowicz-Tabaczek & Bajcar 2018). Indeed, desirability of selfchange is a determinant of present-future self-continuity (Salgado & Berntsen 2020).…”

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Self-Continuity

Sedikides

Hong

Wildschut

2023

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Self-continuity is the subjective sense of connection between one's past and present selves (past–present self-continuity), between one's present and future selves (present–future self-continuity), or among one's past, present, and future selves (global self-continuity). We consider the motivational character of the three forms of self-continuity, their regulatory properties, and the internal or external factors that consolidate them. We also review their consequences for attitudes and judgments or decisions, motivation, intentions and behavior, and psychological and physical health. We further the detail psychological and behavioral benefits of self-discontinuity (i.e., a sense of disconnect among temporal selves). We next turn to the brain regions that are activated synchronously with self-continuity. We consider developmental perspectives on self-continuity, discuss collective self-continuity (along with its consequences and regulatory properties), and elaborate on cultural differences in self-continuity. This inaugural Annual Reviews chapter demonstrates the breadth, excitement, and sense of synergy among self-continuity researchers and points to promising research directions. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 74 is January 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Thinking further ahead: Can temporal distance in thinking about one's future influence affect experienced by people with low self-esteem?

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

How does future focus promote study engagement? A moderated mediation model of self‐esteem and dispositional awe

How does future focus promote study engagement? A moderated mediation model of self‐esteem and dispositional awe

Thinking About Distant Future Self Leads to Better Current Task Performance Through Higher Future Self-Appraisals

Self-Continuity

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