TY - JOUR
T1 - Gratitude and future time perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic
T2 - effects of age and virus worry
AU - Allemand, Mathias
AU - Olaru, Gabriel
AU - Hill, Patrick L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The current study examined the nature of gratitude and future time perspective (FTP) during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the effects of age and virus worry on the associations between gratitude and remaining opportunities and time. Data came from a survey of a representative sample of Swiss adults (N = 1,008; 18–90 years) assessed during the pandemic in 2020. Local structural equation modeling (LSEM) was used to investigate the effects of continuous age and virus worry on mean-levels and correlations. While gratitude was unaffected by age and worry, the remaining opportunities and time factors of FTP decreased across age and levels of worry. The associations between gratitude and the FTP factors were invariant across age and levels of worry. Additionally, using previous cross-sectional data, the study found that associations between gratitude and future time perspective were significantly smaller during the pandemic as compared to an assessment in 2018.
AB - The current study examined the nature of gratitude and future time perspective (FTP) during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the effects of age and virus worry on the associations between gratitude and remaining opportunities and time. Data came from a survey of a representative sample of Swiss adults (N = 1,008; 18–90 years) assessed during the pandemic in 2020. Local structural equation modeling (LSEM) was used to investigate the effects of continuous age and virus worry on mean-levels and correlations. While gratitude was unaffected by age and worry, the remaining opportunities and time factors of FTP decreased across age and levels of worry. The associations between gratitude and the FTP factors were invariant across age and levels of worry. Additionally, using previous cross-sectional data, the study found that associations between gratitude and future time perspective were significantly smaller during the pandemic as compared to an assessment in 2018.
KW - COVID-19
KW - future time perspective
KW - gratitude
KW - local structural equation modeling (LSEM)
KW - remaining opportunities and time
KW - virus worry
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85116339855
U2 - 10.1080/17439760.2021.1975156
DO - 10.1080/17439760.2021.1975156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116339855
SN - 1743-9760
VL - 17
SP - 819
EP - 831
JO - Journal of Positive Psychology
JF - Journal of Positive Psychology
IS - 6
ER -