Allemand Mathias, Hill Kyrsten C, Hill Patrick L
University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging", University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA.
Int J Aging Hum Dev. 2025 Sep;101(2):247-262. doi: 10.1177/00914150241268018. Epub 2024 Aug 6.
Engagement in healthier lifestyle behaviors often is motivated by a focus on the future. However, there is limited research on the associations between health behavior and future time perspective, defined as people's tendency to perceive their future as expansive or as limited. Data came from a survey of U.S. adults (= 805, 49.3% female; = 50 years, range: 19 to 85 years). Participants completed measures of perceptions of future opportunities and time and health behavior. Opportunities and time factors were uniquely associated with health behavior. While the perceived opportunities factor was strongly associated with better health behavior, the time factor was associated with poorer health behavior. However, this latter association was dependent on individual demographic and health status differences. These findings suggest that perceptions of future opportunities can play an important role in health behavior engagement and thus represent an important target for health promotion.
参与更健康的生活方式行为通常是出于对未来的关注。然而，关于健康行为与未来时间观之间关联的研究有限，未来时间观被定义为人们将自己的未来视为广阔或有限的倾向。数据来自一项对美国成年人的调查（= 805人，49.3%为女性；= 50岁，范围：19至85岁）。参与者完成了对未来机会、时间和健康行为的认知测量。机会和时间因素与健康行为有着独特的关联。虽然感知到的机会因素与更好的健康行为密切相关，但时间因素与较差的健康行为相关。然而，后一种关联取决于个体的人口统计学和健康状况差异。这些发现表明，对未来机会的认知在健康行为参与中可以发挥重要作用，因此是健康促进的一个重要目标。
