Episodic future thinking in 35-, 47-, and 55-month-old children

Riikka Pauliina Svane; Toril Jensen; Tirill Fjellhaugen Hjuler; Trine Sonne; Osman Skjold Kingo; Peter Krøjgaard

doi:10.1080/19012276.2021.1873829

Episodic future thinking in 35-, 47-, and 55-month-old children

Riikka Pauliina Svane, Toril Jensen, Tirill Fjellhaugen Hjuler, Trine Sonne, Osman Skjold Kingo, Peter Krøjgaard^*

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Abstract

The trip task has been used as a verbal test for examining preschool children’s episodic future thinking. However, the only existing study using the trip task merely examined 3-year-olds. In order to investigate how future projections develop, we examined a total of 241 preschool children in three age groups (35-, 47-, and 55-month-olds). As expected, the results revealed a developmental progression with the older children outperforming their younger peers. The obtained results correspond to existing evidence using behavioral tasks, and thereby underscores the robustness of previous findings showing that the ability to project oneself into the future undergoes a marked development from 3 to 5 years of age. In addition, and more specifically, the results presented here when considered together with other evidence, may suggest a hitherto neglected developmental spurt from around 3.5- to 4-years of age in relation to episodic future thinking, calling for further research in this age range.

Original language	English
Journal	Nordic Psychology
Volume	74
Issue	1
Pages (from-to)	53-69
Number of pages	17
ISSN	1904-0016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2021.1873829
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2022

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episodic memory
future projections
self
trip task

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