In the present study, we examined demographic differences in time attitudes in a sample of
293 adolescents. Time attitudes were measured using the Adolescent Time Attitude Scale
(Mello & Worrell, 2007; Worrell, Mello, & Buhl, 2011), which assesses positive and negative
attitudes toward the past, the present, and the future. Generally, African Americans and
Asian Americans reported higher scores for negative time attitudes and lower scores for
positive time attitudes than European Americans and Latinos, with medium sizes …