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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

The Role of Future Self-Continuity and Temporal Self-Comparison in Motivation and Well-Being in Singapore and the US

Virtual · June 2020

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  • Robert Adelman
    National University of Singapore
  • Patricia Chen
    National University of Singapore

Abstract

Two large-scale longitudinal studies, in the USA and Singapore, investigated the link between future self-continuity and temporal self-comparison and the role these factors play in motivation and well-being. In the Singaporean sample, we also examined whether these relations differed for traditional and non-traditional students.

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