Future Time Orientation

Background/Introduction Future Time Orientation for career is a personality characteristic defined as the "general capacity to anticipate, shed light on and structure the future of one's career. (Gjesme, 1983)" Those who score high in the construct are likely to spend more time thinking about their future career and engaging in career development activities for the benefit of their future career than those who score low in the construct. The construct being measured is an important …

…item in order to see whether each discriminates between those who scored high and those who scored low. If those who score high on FTO for career and those who score low on FTO for career are answering an item in the same way, then the item is not differentiating between the two groups. I would modify or eliminate those items that were found to have a d = 0, and leave those with a d < 0.