Parental Time Orientation Impacts Distress and Parenting Practices, Study Finds.

A new study published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests that a parent's focus on different time frames is associated with important parenting behaviors and experiences. Parents who are more focused on the present tend to experience greater parental distress and exhibit more negative parenting behaviors compared to those who are more focused on the future. The study also found that parents' future orientation and their parenting behaviors were connected, even when taking into account factors like parental depression, distress, and child behavior problems.