Future Time Perspective as a Predictor of School Investment

This article deals with the relation between students' future time perspectives and their investment in schooling. Future time perspective is regarded as a predictor and school investment as the behaviour to be explained. In this study involving over 600 students from all grades of secondary education it was found that different future time perspectives, particularly those related to school career and professional career, are good predictors of school investment. It was also investigated whether students' gender, school type, grade, socio-economic status, fear of failure and locus of control have an influence on the relation between future time perspective and school investment. This proved to be the case for locus of control.