Time Attitude Profiles and Health-Related Behaviors: Validation of a Spanish Version of the Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory–Time Attitudes (AATI-TA)

Abstract

Temporal psychology constructs are an individual difference variable related to behavioral outcomes. Recent research has shown that there are different time attitude profiles based on different configurations of the six Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory-Time Attitude (AATI-TA) subscales. The objective of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of AATI-TA scores in Uruguay and determine the existence of temporal profiles in this context. Participants were a convenience sample of 446 (36.5% males) adults in Uruguay with a mean age of 34.53 years (SD = 13.17, range 18–75 years). Participants completed a sociodemographic questionnaire, the AATI-TA, and questionnaires on intentions, behaviors, and attitudes towards healthy food consumption and physical activity. AATI-TA scores had good reliabilities (> .70). The six-factor solution was supported and invariance by gender and age group was established. We identified five profiles – Resilients, High Positives, Negatives, Present Negatives, and Moderate Positives – which were associated differently with healthy food consumption patterns. Negative profiles were related to higher levels of unhealthy food consumption.

The Assessment of Time Attitudes Among Adolescents and Young Adults With the Polish Adolescent and Adult Time Inventory – Time Attitude Scale (AATI-TA-Polish)

“…Interestingly, four of the five Future Negative items had low coefficients on the Negativity factor, in keeping with the fact that the Future Negative factor has posed more challenges than the others (McKay, Worrell, et al, 2020). It is also worth pointing out that the time-valence model does not necessarily invalidate or replace the 6-factor Invariance of AATI-TA Structure Analyses of scores based on the 6-factor AATI-TA model in past studies have provided support for gender invariance in adolescents and adults (Donati et al, 2019;Konowalczyk et al, 2018;Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020;, age invariance between younger and older adolescents (Konowalczyk et al, 2018), and between adolescents and young adults (Donati et al, 2019;Mello et al, 2016;Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020). The results of gender and age invariance analyses on the time-valence model indicate that this model of the AATI-TA can also be used to compare adolescents and young adults.…”

“…Factor Structure of AATI-TA Scores The 6-factor structure of the AATI-TA is well-established. Since it was first introduced to literature in a German sample by Buhl and Lindner (2009), evidence in support of the 6-factor structure has been reported in 13 other countries, including Albania, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Nigeria, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay (see McKay, Healy, et al, 2020, Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020, and recently supported in a meta-analysis (McKay, Healy, et al, 2020). The McKay, Healy, et al (2020) meta-analysis also provided support for the internal consistency of scores on the six theorized AATI-TA factors, which were replicated in this study.…”

“…Analyses of scores based on the 6-factor AATI-TA model in past studies have provided support for gender invariance in adolescents and adults (Donati et al, 2019; Konowalczyk et al, 2018; Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020; Worrell, McKay, et al, 2018), age invariance between younger and older adolescents (Konowalczyk et al, 2018), and between adolescents and young adults (Donati et al, 2019; Mello et al, 2016; Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020). The results of gender and age invariance analyses on the time-valence model indicate that this model of the AATI-TA can also be used to compare adolescents and young adults.…”

“…Evidence in support of AATI-TA scores has been reported in various cultural contexts, including Germany (Buhl & Lindner, 2009; Worrell et al, 2013), New Zealand (Alansari et al, 2013), the United States (Worrell et al, 2013), Scotland and Northern Ireland (McKay et al, 2015), Japan (Chishima et al, 2017), Turkey (Çelik et al, 2017; Şahin-Baltacı et al, 2017), Spain (Konowalczyk et al, 2018), Nigeria (Mello et al, 2019), Italy (Donati et al, 2019; Worrell et al, 2020), Albania (Worrell et al, 2020), and Uruguay (Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020). Despite the psychometric strengths of the AATI-TA, scores on the Future Negative scale have not worked as well in some studies in some contexts, including Italy and Albania (Worrell et al, 2020), Nigeria (Mello et al, 2019), and Turkey (Şahin-Baltacı et al, 2017).…”

Disrupting times in the wake of the pandemic: Dispositional time attitudes, time perception and temporal focus

“…Dispositional time attitudes. Time attitudes were measured by the ATTI-TA in Spanish (Vásquez-Echeverría et al, 2020). The ATTI-TA prompted students to consider their attitude in general with no reference to the pandemic context.…”