Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to clarify the relationship between the time perspective and the general perceived control. A questionnaire of the time perspective and a scale of the general perceived control were administered to 284 junior high school students (140 males and 144 females). By factor analysis, the time perspective questionnaire was divided into three factors, named as follows: “unsatisfaction for past, present and future”,“future-orientation” and “past-orientation”. The main results were summarized as follows: (1) The low group of the general perceived control showed higher degree of unsatisfaction for past, present, and future than the high group.(2) In the high group of the general perceived control, the relationship between the unsatisfaction for past, present and future, and the future-orientation showed positive.
