A Study On Time Cognition And Feeling In Time Perspective

There presently were different viewpoints about the essential contents of time perspective (TP), such as the conceptions and the structures, therefore, there were researches of different meanings. If the contents of each research could be viewed as a set, then there were the union set of the previous and potential researches in this field. In the previous researches, ones chose the most rational part which was a subset of the union set, such as cognition, feeling to time, and actions tendency towards time, as his own research object in order to explore, on the basis of his own targets or his own understanding of TP. It was the first time to explore the whole union set, which was defined as the perspective of mental life in certain subjective time structure by us, in order to understand meaning of the cognition and feeling of time as TP factors. Scanning the whole union set could further deplore in a unified framework, and get a unified comprehension of possible contents of TP split in the previous researches.The findings of the factor analysis to the data of the questionnaire made by ourselves showed a TP structure containing 27 factors, which were more than the factors by the previous researches, and materialized the hypothesis of "the perspective of mental life in certain subjective time structure". In these factors, not only "directionality" and "extension" ,but some new factors which are the feeling and actions towards objective time were found, such as "time-lapsing" , "variation of time", "temporal looseness" and "temporal immutability", etc.; apart from "planning" for temporal attitude, some new factors, such as "aloofness to time", "triteness of time", "brittleness to time" , "bored with time", "realism in making use of time" and "un-self-determination", etc. were found; apart from "suffering in the past", new factorsas the past TP such as "lingering fear", "the rejected past", "nicety be no longer", etc. were found; and not only "happiness" but new factors such as "making use of time nowadays" as the present TP were found; the factors related to "coherence" found by this investigation were not uni-factor one, but included "coherence of ego", "social coherence", "general coherence", "self-loosing", etc. The factors of density includes not only uni-factor as it was found in some previous studies, but also multiple factors that reflect density of present events, density of future events, density of tribulation in the past, velocity of time lapsing, variability of velocity, and velocity of temporal varying. The factors of "density" reflect the differential coefficient divided for time of the development and changing of events.In this research, not only the structures of TP of different ages, sexes, and educational degrees of the subjects, but also the mental pathological stability of TP structures were examined. The results showed, in the TP factors, some were stable, and could characterize the development and changing of TP of the people with different healthy status. But other could only exist in some certain healthy or unhealthy status, so that the factors were not stable.Because we considered if TP was the cognition and feeling towards time, at least partial factors of TP would be relevant with the temporal information processing, and on the other hand those TP factors without significant relevance with temporal information processing could not be the cognition and feeling to time. The relation of TP factors and estimation of duration was specially experimented in this research for the first time. The results of relation analysis between the TP factors and fractal dimension of estimation of duration showed, only two of all TP factors "suffering in the past" and "the past had been far away" were relevant to fractal of estimation of duration (p=.048 and p=.055, respectively). And other factors including those were thought of as "perception" and "feeling" to time were not significantly relevant to fractal of estimation of duration, such as "time-lapsing", "variation of time", "brittleness of time", an...