Acta Psychologica Sinica

Abstract

Time is the most precious resource in business and society, which can be effectively managed and used. However, the way people subjectively experience and utilize time varies substantially between people. But in psychological study, research such as time attitude, time experience, time structure, are related to the subjective experience and utilization of time. At present Time Management Questionnaire and Time Management Behavior Scale is used abroad to evaluate the way individuals utilize time. The time management disposition reflects the way that individuals make of use and controls his time, and it can be considered as a kind of personality trait which is a multi-dimension and multi-level mental structure. The study aims at developing the Time Management Disposition Inventory for Chinese adolescents.

With studies abroad and our preliminary investigation as base, the Adolescence Time Management Disposition Inventory has been compiled. According to the results of 1,207 adolescents by exploratory factor analysis, the time management disposition is consisted of the sense of time value (it included social-oriented time value and individual-oriented time value), the sense of time control (it included setting goals, planning, priorities, time allocation, and feedback) and the sense of time efficacy (it included efficacy of time management and efficacy of time management behaviors). The confirmatory factor analysis was used to verify the construct validity with the result of other 507 adolescents, the goodness of fit of three-dimension model was better than other unconstrained models. Compared with the three scales on time management abroad (Time Management Questionnaire, Time Management Behavior Scale and Time Structure Questionnaire), Time management Disposition Inventory has content validity. The reliability analysis provided Cronbach α and retest correlation, which indicated the inventory had internal and temporal consistency.

All the results indicated Time Management Disposition Inventory had clear factor structure, good reliability and validity. It can be used to assess the time management disposition for Chinese adolescence.

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