The Time Perception Of The College Student Preparing For Postgraduate Entrance Examination And Its Impact On Intertemporal Decision Making

Almost all college students will pay attention to postgraduate entrance examination(PEE).At present,the research on the group preparing for PEE is mostly from the point of pressure and anxiety,and some corresponding countermeasures are put forward.This paper,which is based on a new perspective,is set to investigate the difference in subjective time perception among the group preparing for PEE.Moreover,we analyzing whether the difference in time perception of the group preparing for PEE influenced the choice tendency of intertemporal decision making and whether manipulation time unpacking task could change the subjective time perception of the group preparing for PEE.This article includes three studies.In the first study,we used time distance replication task to investigate the difference of time perception between the PEE group and the non-PEE group under the different time distance.The results showed that under the different time distance,there were no significant difference in time perception between the PEE group and the non-PEE group.We further analyzed the difference of time perception between intradisciplinary PEE group and interdisciplinary PEE group in different time distance,and found that that in 2S and 6S time-distance intervals,the time perception by intradisciplinary PEE group were significantly longer than that of interdisciplinary PEE group.In order to further study the effects of time perception and gender variables on intertemporal decision making preferences,the second study employed a subjective time perception rating scale which is used to screen out time-overestimating group and time-underestimating groups,analyzing the differences of indifference point between the two groups of PEE and the gender variables in an intertemporal decision task.The result showed that the indifference point in the time-overestimating group is significantly higher than that in the time-underestimating group,and the male indifference point is significantly higher than that of the female group,but the interaction between time perception and gender is not significant.In order to study whether the manipulation time unpacking task can change the subjective time perception of PEE group,in the third part,the PEE group was divided into time unpacking group and time non-unpacking group randomly,and the subjective time perception was evaluated.The results showed that although the time perception of the unpacking group was longer than the time perception of the non-unpacking group,the difference in subjective time perception between the unpacking group and the non-unpacking group was not so significant.To summarize,there is a significant subjective time perception difference between the PEE group and the choice tendency of intertemporal decision making.The results of this study,to a certain extent,enriched the research contents in the field of time perception and intertemporal decision,and have an undeniable significance for college student's postgraduate entrance examination and mental health education for middle school students.