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Kompetencje temporalne – metoda pomiaru
Temporal competence – the method of measurement

Author(s): Zenon Uchnast, Kinga Tucholska
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II

Summary/Abstract: Temporal competence are manifested in having knowledge about one’s own past, presence, and future, and making use of its resources in coping with concrete circumstances. For this kind of competence, a factor tool of measurement has been worked out by the authors – a Questionnaire of Temporal Competence. The method consists of 64 items. in the result of the test six indicators are used: Life Openness, Sense of Life, Prospective Approach, Future Acceptance, Presence Acceptance, and a general indicator. The reliability of the method has been established in a group of 612 respondents – it is high. Diagnostic accuracy has been tested on the basis of 212 respondents tested by the following methods: W. Lens’s Questionnaire of Future Temporal Perspective, E. L. Shostrom’s Temporal Competence Scale, C. S. Nosal’s and B. Bajcar’s Questionnaire of Temporal Orientation AION-99, and A. Antonowski’s Questionnaire of the Sense of Coherence SOC-29.

  • Issue Year: 6/2003
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-150
  • Page Count: 20