Having the Time of Our Lives? How Threat Appraisal is Influenced by the Subjective Nature of Time

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dc.contributor.advisorGreenglass, Esther R.
dc.creatorSass, Rachelle Alexandra Marie
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T19:30:15Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T19:30:15Z
dc.date.copyright2015-08-25
dc.date.issued2015-12-16
dc.date.updated2015-12-16T19:30:15Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality)
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractTemporal construal is the cognitive process that determines an event’s location in time and the experience of its distance from the present. The greater the temporal distance, the more likely events are represented in abstract versus concrete features. This experiment examined temporal construal’s effect on threat appraisal of a stressful medical procedure, where the manipulation involved university students imagining the procedure in concrete or abstract terms. The near-future group was expected to interpret the procedure as nearer and more threatening than the distant-future group on questionnaires. An Implicit Association Test (IAT) measured response latencies during categorization of stimuli into paired concepts (threat and time). A significant interaction was found between a personality trait and temporal construal on the perceived distance of the procedure, t(189) = 2.14, p = .03. IAT results found that participants were faster at categorizing stimuli into congruent versus incongruent pairs, t(179) = 4.05, p < .001.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30742
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.subjectHealth sciences
dc.subject.keywordsstress and coping
dc.subject.keywordsthreat
dc.subject.keywordstemporal construal
dc.subject.keywordstime
dc.subject.keywordsconstrual level
dc.subject.keywordstime perspective
dc.subject.keywordspersonality
dc.subject.keywordsproactive coping
dc.subject.keywordshealth psychology
dc.titleHaving the Time of Our Lives? How Threat Appraisal is Influenced by the Subjective Nature of Time
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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