Citation

Kruger DJ, Carrothers J, Franzen SP, Miller AL, Reischl TM, Stoddard SA, Zimmerman MA. J. Interpers. Violence 2018; 33(12): 1893-1908.

Affiliation

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260515619752

PMID

26701997

Abstract

This study investigated the role of present and future time perspectives, and their relationships with subjective norms and beliefs regarding violence, in predicting violent behaviors among urban middle school students in the Midwestern United States. Although present time perspective covaried with subjective norms and beliefs, each made a unique prediction of self-reported violent behaviors. Future time perspective was not a significant predictor when accounting for these relationships. In addition, present orientation moderated the relationship between subjective norms and beliefs and rates of violent behaviors; those with higher present orientations exhibited stronger associations. We replicated this pattern of results in data from new participants in a subsequent wave of the study. Interventions that explicitly address issues related to time perspective may be effective in reducing early adolescent violence.


Keywords: Juvenile justice;

Language: en