Previous research has suggested that time attitude profiles play a greater role in differentiating between adaptive and maladaptive outcomes than individual time attitude scores. In this manuscript, we examined this claim in two samples of American adolescents. The Study 1 sample consisted of 300 participants aged 12 to 19 (M = 16.06, SD = 1.25; 40% female) from diverse ethnic-racial groups. In this sample, we looked at the bivariate correlations between time attitudes and (a) other time constructs (consideration of future consequences, hope, optimism, perceived life chances), (b) academic constructs (academic self-concept, valuing education, perceived barriers to attending college, and school belonging), and (c) expected job discrimination on the basis of gender and ethnicity/race. We also examined the association between these constructs and time attitude profiles. The Study 2 sample consisted of 748 adolescents aged 11 to 20 (M = 15.71, SD = 1.53; 54% female), also from diverse ethnic-racial backgrounds. Similar analyses were conducted in Study 2, but with hopelessness, abstract and concrete attitudes toward education, past discrimination, and expected job discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity/race, and income. In both studies, time attitude profiles were strongly associated with outcomes, even when time attitudes were not correlated with the variables. Thus, time attitude profiles seem to be a strong general predictor of adolescent functioning across multiple domains. The findings highlight the importance of time attitude profiles and suggest that these may be useful targets for intervention.

先前的研究表明，时间态度档案在区分适应性和适应不良结果方面起着比个人时间态度分数更大的作用。在本手稿中，我们在两个美国青少年样本中研究了这种说法。研究1样本由300名12至19岁的参与者组成（M =  16.06，SD = 1.25; 来自不同族裔群体的女性占40％。在此样本中，我们研究了时间态度与（a）其他时间结构（对未来后果，希望，乐观，感知的生活机会的考虑），（b）学术结构（学术的自我概念，重视教育，感知的）之间的二元相关性。上大学的障碍和学校的归属感），以及（c）预期基于性别和种族/种族的工作歧视。我们还检查了这些构造和时间态度概况之间的联系。研究2样本由748名11至20岁的青少年组成（M  = 15.71，SD = 1.53; 54％的女性），也来自不同的种族背景。在研究2中进行了类似的分析，但充满了绝望，对教育的抽象和具体态度，过去的歧视以及基于性别，种族/种族和收入的预期工作歧视。在两项研究中，即使时间态度与变量均不相关，时间态度特征也与结果密切相关。因此，时间态度概况似乎是跨多个领域的青少年功能的强大总体预测指标。这些发现突出了时间态度档案的重要性，并暗示这些可能是干预的有用目标。