Knowing What to Do in Life: The Effect of Past Negative Time Perspective and a Life Design Intervention
| Item Type | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
| Abstract | Knowing What to Do in Life: The Effect of Past Negative Time Perspective and a Life Design Intervention Life design is a challenging and pervasive task. Everyone designs his or her own life – more or less consciously. The relevance of the concept of time is intrinsic in life design, which is indeed a design of our own future (Ferrari, Nota & Soresi, 2010). How does Time Perspective (Zimbardo and Boyd, 1999) affect life design? Can a life design intervention change the effect of time perspective on life design? Departing from traditional one-on-one coaching sessions, we investigate the effectiveness of a life design intervention (28 hours) based on Design Thinking and conducted in large groups (partially based on: Burnett & Evans, 2016). We conduct a pilot study with 26 master students, enrolled in a Swiss Business School, and evaluate their Time Perspective (ZTPI) and series of pre- and post-intervention measures. We find that Past Negative Time Perspective had a significant negative impact on subjects’ ability to define what to do in their life (R2=.206; p=.030). However, after the intervention, career decidedness significantly increased for all participants (t=2.87; p=.008), and the effect of Past Negative Time Perspective was not anymore significant (p=.124). The promising initial results seem to indicate that students with a highly Negative Past Time Perspective have more difficulties in career decidedness, however, after the life design group intervention, they did not differ from other participants. |
| Authors | Bresciani, Sabrina & Kernbach, Sebastian |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | social sciences education |
| HSG Classification | contribution to scientific community |
| Date | 13 July 2021 |
| Event Title | International Conference on Time Perspectives |
| Event Location | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Event Dates | 2021 (Postponed due to Covid-19) |
| Depositing User | Prof. Dr. Sabrina Bresciani |
| Date Deposited | 15 Jun 2020 14:01 |
| Last Modified | 20 Jul 2022 17:42 |
| URI: | https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/260452 |
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