TY - JOUR
T1 - Time perspective and volunteerism
T2 - The importance of focusing on the future
AU - Maki, Alexander
AU - Dwyer, Patrick C.
AU - Snyder, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/5/3
Y1 - 2016/5/3
N2 - Because volunteerism is a planned activity that unfolds over time, people who more frequently focus on the future might also be more likely to initiate volunteerism and sustain it over time. Using longitudinal (Study 1) and experimental (Study 2) paradigms, we investigated whether time perspective, and in particular a persons orientation toward the future, is related to volunteers beliefs and behavior. In Study 1, a persons dispositional level of future time perspective was closely linked to volunteer beliefs and behavior. In Study 2, people who wrote about the future reported higher intentions to volunteer, and this was particularly true for infrequent volunteers and those with lower levels of dispositional future time perspective. Across two studies, we found evidence that future time perspective, whether a chronic disposition or a pattern of thought elicited by someone else, is linked to volunteer beliefs and behavior.
AB - Because volunteerism is a planned activity that unfolds over time, people who more frequently focus on the future might also be more likely to initiate volunteerism and sustain it over time. Using longitudinal (Study 1) and experimental (Study 2) paradigms, we investigated whether time perspective, and in particular a persons orientation toward the future, is related to volunteers beliefs and behavior. In Study 1, a persons dispositional level of future time perspective was closely linked to volunteer beliefs and behavior. In Study 2, people who wrote about the future reported higher intentions to volunteer, and this was particularly true for infrequent volunteers and those with lower levels of dispositional future time perspective. Across two studies, we found evidence that future time perspective, whether a chronic disposition or a pattern of thought elicited by someone else, is linked to volunteer beliefs and behavior.
KW - Identity
KW - personality
KW - prosocial behaviour
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U2 - 10.1080/00224545.2015.1090946
DO - 10.1080/00224545.2015.1090946
M3 - Article
C2 - 27064184
AN - SCOPUS:84963773853
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 156
SP - 334
EP - 349
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -