This investigation explored time orientation and associations with participation in leisure activities. The Experiential Inventory, a projective technique, assessed time orientation by having respondents list their most important life experiences and then match each experience with a past, present, or future time. Data from 149 randomly selected respondents in a southwestern metropolitan area provided evidence that time orientation can be significantly associated with participation in a large number of leisure activities. The present findings showed a future time orientation seemed very important for understanding participation in leisure activities.
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