The Relations between Construal Level and Time Estimation: The Effects of Intentionality

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2019

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: ŞEYMA SEVGİCAN

Danışman: Gülten Ünal

Özet:

In this thesis, it was aimed to examine the perception of time in the context of construal level
and intentionality. Furthermore, subjective time perception of participants was evaluated in
order to see whether it was related to duration estimation. Accordingly, three different
experiments were conducted. In general, it was expected that time estimation will differ
according to construal level and intentionality (having a goal in the task). The first study
focused on predicting how much time the participant would need for completing the task.
Besides, the second study focused on the duration estimation of the completed task of
participants and the deviation between the time they actually completed the task and the time
they estimated. Lastly, the third study was conducted to verify previous studies without
intentionality condition. The research sample consisted of 105 students (85 female and 20
male) for the first experiment and 108 students (82 female and 26 male) for the second
experiment, studying at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, a state university in Ankara. The
third experiment conducted at Haliç University, a private university in Istanbul, with 44
students (21 female and 23 male). The time perception in the experiment was studied by
verbal time estimation. Besides, mindset and intentionality were manipulated. Mann-Whitney
U and ANOVA tests were used to test the difference between groups and Spearman’s
Correlation was used to test the relationship. According to the results, only the first hypothesis
of the first experiment corresponded with the literature that different mindsets lead to
differences in the estimation of time, but this was in the opposite direction of the hypothesis.
Participants in the concrete mindset made longer estimates than those in abstract mindset did.
Any of the other hypotheses were not supported. The possible variables, especially the
universality of construal level theory and cultural factors, which are likely to affect the results,
are presented and limitations of the study are discussed within the context of the related
literature.