Future time perspective has been a widely used multifactor construct dealing with beliefs about the future. The greatest weakness, however, has been a failure to develop adequate instrumentation. This study describes the development of an 80-item instrument. Aside from the evaluation process, the most significant finding was that responses to the scale give a unitary factor.
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