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Time Availability Scale

TAVLMomentary subjective sense of time abundance -- feeling unrushed, expansive in time, and without time scarcity (state measure)
5 items 2015 α 0.89 Free Etkin, J., Evangelidis, I., & Aaker, J.

What it measures

Five items capture the degree to which a person subjectively feels, in the present moment, that they have an ample and unhurried sense of time. Two items assess time expansion and boundlessness; three reverse-scored items assess feelings of time constriction, urgency, and insufficiency. The scale targets the immediate, felt experience of time rather than objective time availability or time use, making it a sensitive measure for experimentally induced states of time scarcity or abundance.

Representative items

Citation

Etkin, J., Evangelidis, I., & Aaker, J. (2015). Pressed for time? Goal conflict shapes how time is perceived, spent, and valued. Journal of Marketing Research, 52(3), 394-406.

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