Those of higher agreeableness, women and the old see time flowing speedier

Age, Personal Characteristics, and the Speed of Psychological Time. Audrey-Anne Gagnon-Harvey, Jamie McArthur, Émie Tétreault, Daniel Fortin-Guichard, and Simon Grondin. Timing & Time Perception, Jan 19 2021. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10024

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Abstract: Adults often report the impression that time seems to pass more and more quickly as they get older. The purpose of this study is to identify how individual characteristics relate to this impression of acceleration. To do so, 894 participants aged 15 to 97 completed a questionnaire that surveyed sociodemographic characteristics, impulsivity, anxiety, personality, and relation to time. They also indicated how fast different lapses of time seemed to have passed: yesterday, the past week, the past month, the past year, the past three years, the past five years, and the past 10 years. For each period, except for one year, adolescents found that time passes more slowly than participants from older groups (18–29 years, 30–59 years, and 60 years and over). A composite score for all these periods also indicates that female participants found that time passes more rapidly than males. However, a multiple linear regression analysis reveals that the variables that best predict the impression that time passes faster as we get older are high anxiety, the belief in the phenomenon of temporal compression, as well as conscientiousness and agreeableness personality traits, with other factors explaining little variance. These results add further weight to the impression that time seems to pass more quickly as we age, but also indicate that other variables than age play a critical role in explaining this impression.

Keywords: Speed of psychological time; time perception; individual differences; aging