Three semantic differential items assess where respondents locate a specified future event on a near-to-distant temporal continuum. The items range from an immediate now/later contrast to a broader today/over the year comparison and an explicit near/distant future framing. The scale was designed to verify the success of temporal framing manipulations in health communication research and operates as a state measure of subjective temporal distance.
Pounders, K. R., Lee, S., & Mackert, M. (2015). Matching temporal frame, self-view, and message frame valence: Improving persuasiveness in health communications. Journal of Advertising, 44(4), 388-402.
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