Time Perspective: Chronic Illness Flashcards
Procrastination is linked to physical health through a direct pathway: _______ and an indirect pathway: _______
High stress
Treatment delay
3 Factors that increase the risk of developing a chronic illness?
Genetic
Envirosocial
Behavioural
Physical inactivity and unhealthy diet are major contributors to…
Obesity
Living with chronic illness can impact self-perceptions how?
Who you were
Who you are now
Wilson and Ross (2001) said that we have a tendency to derogate…
Distant past selves
Praise recent past selves
Wilson and Ross (2001): We have a tendency to derogate ________, while praising __________
Distant past selves
Recent past selves
Who said that we have a tendency to derogate distant past selves and praise recent past selves?
Wilson and Ross
What did Wilson and Ross find in their study of students?
Students prompted to view beginning of term as further away rated past-self more negatively
We use temporal distance as a proxy for…
Growth and change
Do we perceive ourselves as improving or worsening over time?
Improving
Why do we put our close-past self down?
Feels too close for there to be room for change
How can temporal self-appraisal be manipulated?
By increasing psychological distance (told to view past self as farther in past)
Telling participants to view their past self as even farther in the past manipulates their…
Temporal self-appraisal
Temporal ________ can alter the perception of __________
Landmarks
Temporal landscape
How do temporal landmarks alter the perception of the temporal landscape?
Divide timeframes up for us
Dividing timeframes up via temporal landmarks makes us feel a greater amount of…
Psychological distance
Temporally extended selves are perceived as more distant when an intervening landmark has been made…
Salient
One example of a temporal landmark
You before and after a major birthday
Chronic illness provides a context of continuity and challenge to the ___________
Self system
You before and after a major birthday is an example of
A temporal landmark
____________ provides a context of continuity and challenge to the self system
Chronic illness
Two chronic illness examples
Arthritis
IBD
What is the indirect pathway in which Procrastination is linked to poor health…
Treatment delay
A study of arthritis and IBD found that induction of different time perspectives was…
Unsuccessful in either chronic illness group