The present research provided description of interpersonal life projections based on responses to the Interpersonal Future Likelihood Inventory, an instrument for measuring future time perspective, which was administered to a sample of 140 female undergraduates from three majors (Human Services, Nursing, and Child and Family Studies). Female undergraduates do not perceive divorce or alternative lifestyles to be present in their future lives. The three majors, however, differed significantly in their predictions of the kinds of lives they would be living, with nursing students being most traditional.
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