Time perspective orientation and big-five dimensions: an exploratory study in the portuguese population

Abstract

Zimbardo and Boyd (1999), with their Time Perspective scale, have shown relations between the time perspective’s dimensions and Big-Five’s dimensions. Recent studies (Dunkel & Weber, 2010) show the existence of such relations. The present study used the Portuguese version of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (Ortuño & Gamboa, 2008) and the short version (10 itens) of Big Five Inventory (Rammstedt & John, 2007), adapted to Portuguese by Bártolo-Ribeiro and Aguiar (2008). Both scales were applied to 326 participants in two different application contexts (online and face-to-face). The results shows that different temporal perspectives are associated to different personality dimensions, confi rming in a global way the results already found in previous studies with other personality questionnaires, namely signifi cant correlations between negative past and neuroticism; positive past and agreeableness; hedonist present with extraversion; fatalist present with conscientiousness (negatively); and future with conscientiousness.