It's Time to Think about Time in Health Psychology

• DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12156
• Publication Date: 2019-04-12T02:35:25Z
• Authors: Urte Scholz
• Keywords: Time Perspective

This position paper addresses the need for stronger theorizing on temporal matters in health psychology. Too few theories psychology address specified psychological phenomena, their relationships, and explanation these relationships. might lead to underestimating existing relationships between constructs over time or missing out opportunities advancing our knowledge with regard dynamic developments of phenomena interest. Examples approaches addressing are provided. Further, drawing from other disciplines, examples methodological conceptual outlined that offer directions how optimize matters. start including time‐related theoretical considerations definition concepts already cross‐sectional research reach as far developing capturing changing interest real life. Challenges about addressed.