John Dennis, Lang Frieder R
Institute of Psychogerontology.
Dev Psychol. 2015 Dec;51(12):1824-1839. doi: 10.1037/dev0000059. Epub 2015 Sep 28.
Most people believe that time seems to pass more quickly as they age. Building on assumptions of socioemotional selectivity theory, we investigated whether awareness that one's future lifetime is limited is associated with one's experience of time during everyday activities across adulthood in 3 studies. In the first 2 studies (Study 1: N = 608; Study 2: N = 398), participants completed a web-based version of the day reconstruction method. In Study 3 (N = 392) participants took part in a newly developed tomorrow construction method, a web-based experimental method for assessing everyday life plans. Results confirmed that older adults' subjective interpretation of everyday episodes is that these episodes pass more quickly compared with younger adults. The subjective acceleration of time experience in old age was more pronounced during productive activities than during regenerative-consumptive activities. The age differences were partly related to limited time remaining in life. In addition, subjective acceleration of time experience was associated with positive evaluations of everyday activities. Findings suggest that subjective acceleration of time in older adults' daily lives reflects an adaptation to limitations in time remaining in life. (PsycINFO Database Record
大多数人认为，随着年龄的增长，时间似乎过得更快。基于社会情感选择性理论的假设，我们在3项研究中调查了意识到自己未来的寿命有限是否与成年人在日常活动中的时间体验有关。在前两项研究中（研究1：N = 608；研究2：N = 398），参与者完成了基于网络的日重建方法。在研究3（N = 392）中，参与者参与了一种新开发的明日构建方法，这是一种用于评估日常生活计划的基于网络的实验方法。结果证实，与年轻人相比，老年人对日常事件的主观解读是这些事件过得更快。老年时期时间体验的主观加速在生产性活动中比在恢复性-消费性活动中更为明显。年龄差异部分与生命中剩余时间有限有关。此外，时间体验的主观加速与对日常活动的积极评价有关。研究结果表明，老年人日常生活中时间的主观加速反映了对生命中剩余时间限制的一种适应。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
