| Abstract: | Conducted 2 studies to investigate the effects of personality, as dichotomized along a thought-action dimension, on time perception. Study 1 divided 27 10-48 yr old psychiatric patients into groups depending on whether their weighted color responses on the Rorschach exceeded or were exceeded by the sum of the movement responses. Ss with an introversive Experience Balance (EB) overestimated time, whereas Ss with an extratensive EB underestimated time. Study 2 used 24 normal undergraduates divided into high introversive and high extraversive based on the Maudsley Personality Inventory. 2 time judgments were obtained from each S, and the effect of situational factors (stress) as well as personality was noted. Results are similar to those of Study 1. The time estimation of the action-oriented Ss was significantly more influenced by situational factors than were the time judgments of the ideational Ss. The relationship between thought-action and time estimation was significant in both normal and clinical samples. (40 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
