The theory of MindTime: The relationships between Future, Past, and Present thinking and psychological well-being and distress

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-24

  Fortunato, Vincent J ^a,b   Furey, John T ^b  

^a WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The MindTime Project LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Future thinking; Optimism; Past thinking; Present thinking; Resiliency; Thinking style; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957918665     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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