The study represents a replication with 247 German adolescents of an investigation of Finnish teenagers by von Wright and Rauste von Wright in 1977 to probe the extension and thematic content of both personal and global future orientation. Results provide empirical confirmation for findings of the Finnish investigation, especially a more distant “global” future orientation” for boys than for girls.
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