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Future Orientation and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescence: Two Multiple-Step Models

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This chapter examines the relationship between future orientation and psychological well-being by developing and testing two multiple-step models. One model advances future orientation as an antecedent of positive psychological functioning, while the other postulates positive self-feelings to be an antecedent of future orientation. Empirical tests using data collected from Israeli adolescents show that support of each model rests on the conceptualization of psychological well-being. Particularly, the model future orientation → psychological well-being fits data pertaining to behavioral indicators of positive psychological functioning. The model psychological well-being → future orientation fits data pertaining to subjective positive feelings. The chapter concludes with comments on culture and future orientation domain specificity, and offers directions for further research and interventions.

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    Rachel Seginer

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

    Aleksandra Kostić

  2. Department of Behavioural Sciences and ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    Derek Chadee

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Seginer, R. (2017). Future Orientation and Psychological Well-Being in Adolescence: Two Multiple-Step Models. In: Kostić, A., Chadee, D. (eds) Time Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60191-9_15

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