Alvos L, Gregson R A, Ross M W
Department of Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.
Drug Alcohol Depend. 1993 Jan;31(2):193-7. doi: 10.1016/0376-8716(93)90072-x.
Future time perspective (FTP) is a measure of an individual's ability to conceptualise the future which has been shown to be foreshortened in drug addicts. We studied 100 opiate injecting drug users (IDUs) in New South Wales, Australia, of which half were currently injecting and half were not. There was a significant difference between the two groups on FTP, with those currently injecting having a truncated FTP extension. Factor analysis of the FTP scale suggested that the dimensions of future time may differ between groups, with current injectors having a perspective of loss and isolation compared to the dimension of self-evaluation and self-acceptance in those not currently injecting. These data support previous studies which demonstrated truncated FTP, also demonstrating a difference in currently (as opposed to previously) IDUs and suggest that both extension of FTP and an alteration of the dimensions of FTP are associated with cessation of injecting and entry into treatment.
未来时间观（FTP）是衡量个体对未来进行概念化的能力，研究表明吸毒者的这种能力会缩短。我们对澳大利亚新南威尔士州的100名注射阿片类药物使用者（IDU）进行了研究，其中一半目前仍在注射，另一半则已停止注射。两组在FTP上存在显著差异，目前仍在注射的人其FTP延伸较短。对FTP量表的因素分析表明，未来时间的维度可能因组而异，与目前未注射者的自我评估和自我接受维度相比，目前仍在注射者具有失落和孤立的观念。这些数据支持了先前关于FTP缩短的研究，也表明了目前（而非以前）IDU之间的差异，并表明FTP的延伸和FTP维度的改变都与停止注射和进入治疗有关。
