Academic Delay of Gratification Prediction ‎through Future Time Perspective among ‎University Students

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of the future ‎time perspective on academic delay of gratification, the ‎identification of academic delay of gratification levels, and the ‎prevalence rates of the future time dimension perspective. To ‎achieve the objectives of this study, a sample of 1277 male and ‎female students at Yarmouk University of Jordan was selected. ‎They responded to Al-Rabee et al.’s (2019) scale for future time ‎perspective and the scale for academic delay of gratification ‎developed by Hassan (2008). The results showed that the ‎academic delay of gratification level was medium, and the ‎findings indicated that the levels of dimensions of the future ‎time perspective have the following order: future at the high ‎level, negative past at the medium level, positive past at the ‎medium level, present hedonistic at the medium level, present ‎fatalistic at the medium level. The results also showed that the ‎future, positive past, present hedonistic, present fatalistic, and ‎negative past predicted academic delay of gratification, ‎accounting for 5.08% of the variance between the predictors.‎ ‎(Keywords: Future Time Perspective, Academic Delay of ‎Gratification; University Students)‎