{"id":614437,"date":"2009-12-26T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=137037"},"modified":"2009-12-26T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T20:08:57","slug":"future-minded-equals-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/614437","title":{"rendered":"Future-minded Equals Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to the future rather than immediate, present-day rewards, then you may make healthier decisions that benefit you long-term, say researchers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k-state.edu\/\">Kansas State University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That certainly seems to make sense on a few levels. People who participate in risky sexual behaviors or unhealthy habits like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/which-is-worse-depression-or-smoking\/\">smoking<\/a> may not be thinking about long-term health consequences of their actions.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137045 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/smoking-risk-300x299.jpg?resize=300%2C299\" alt=\"smoking-risk\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" \/>&#8220;If you are more willing to pick later, larger rewards rather than taking the immediate payoff, you are more future-minded than present-minded,&#8221; said James Daugherty, a psychology doctoral student who led the study. Daugherty said that future-minded individuals are more likely to exercise and less likely to smoke and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/alcohol-tied-to-breast-cancer-recurrence\/\">drink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers wanted to determine what type of time perspective measurements are good at <strong>predicting health behaviors<\/strong>. For the study, they first surveyed college students to see whether their thinking was long- or short-term. Other social psychology surveys determined their concerns with health risks.<\/p>\n<p>Daugherty and fellow researcher Gary Brase, K-State associate professor of psychology, found that students who gave future-minded answers in the initial surveys were more likely to report healthy behaviors in latter surveys.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers reason that those who tend to have a present-minded perspective may have an easier time reaching goals like weight loss if they can <strong>see rewards sooner<\/strong>. So, measuring someone&#8217;s time perspective may help with reaching health goals. The research is published in the January issue of <em>Personality and Individual Differences<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the researchers plan on looking at how present-mindedness and future-mindedness correlate with environmentally responsible behaviors. My guess? People who recycle are more future-minded.<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about the idea of an individual&#8217;s time perspective affecting decisions like whether to smoke or drink?<\/p>\n<p>(Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxc.hu\/photo\/1046564\">stock.xchng<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/future-minded-equals-healthy\/\">Future-minded Equals Healthy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking to the future rather than immediate, present-day rewards, then you may make healthier decisions that benefit you long-term, say researchers from Kansas State University. That certainly seems to make sense on a few levels. People who participate in risky sexual behaviors or unhealthy habits like smoking may not be thinking about long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zQh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}