Tasdemir-Ozdes Aylin, Strickland-Hughes Carla M, Bluck Susan, Ebner Natalie C
Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
Psychol Aging. 2016 Sep;31(6):618-630. doi: 10.1037/pag0000089. Epub 2016 Apr 11.
Regardless of age, making healthy lifestyle choices is prudent. Despite that, individuals of all ages sometimes have difficulty choosing the healthy option. We argue that individuals' view of the future and position in the life span affects their current lifestyle choices. We capture the multidimensionality of future thinking by assessing 3 types of future perspective. Younger and older men and women (N = 127) reported global future time perspective, future health perspective, and perceived importance of future health-related events. They also rated their likelihood of making healthy lifestyle choices. As predicted, older participants indicated greater intention to make healthy choices in their current life than did younger participants. Compared to younger participants, older participants reported shorter global future time perspective and anticipated worse future health but perceived future health-related events as more important. Having a positive view of one's future health and seeing future health-related events as important were related to greater intention to make healthy lifestyle choices, but greater global future time perspective was not directly related to healthy choices. However, follow-up analyses suggested that greater global future time perspective indirectly affected healthy choices via a more positive view of future health. None of these relations were moderated by age. Individuals' perspective on the future is shown to be an important multidimensional construct affecting everyday healthy lifestyle choices for both younger and older adults. Implications for encouraging healthy choices across the adult life span are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record
无论年龄大小，做出健康的生活方式选择都是明智的。尽管如此，各个年龄段的人有时在选择健康选项时都会遇到困难。我们认为，个人对未来的看法以及在生命跨度中的位置会影响他们当前的生活方式选择。我们通过评估三种未来视角来捕捉未来思维的多维度性。年轻和年长的男性与女性（N = 127）报告了全球未来时间视角、未来健康视角以及未来与健康相关事件的感知重要性。他们还对自己做出健康生活方式选择的可能性进行了评分。正如预测的那样，年长的参与者表示比年轻参与者更有意愿在当前生活中做出健康选择。与年轻参与者相比，年长参与者报告的全球未来时间视角更短，预计未来健康状况更差，但认为未来与健康相关的事件更重要。对自己未来健康持有积极看法以及将未来与健康相关的事件视为重要，与做出健康生活方式选择的更大意愿相关，但更大的全球未来时间视角与健康选择没有直接关系。然而，后续分析表明，更大的全球未来时间视角通过对未来健康更积极的看法间接影响健康选择。这些关系均不受年龄的调节。个人对未来的看法被证明是一个重要的多维度结构，影响着年轻人和老年人的日常健康生活方式选择。本文讨论了在成年期鼓励做出健康选择的意义。（PsycINFO数据库记录
