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Strathman, A., Gleicher, F., Boninger, D. S., & Edwards, C. S. (2013). Considerations of Future Consequences (CFC Scale). Measurement Instrument Database for the Social Science. Retrieved 21.07.2020 from www.midss.ie Key references: Strathman, A., Gleicher, F., Boninger, D. S., & Edwards, C. S. (1994). The consideration of future consequences: Weighing immediate and distant outcomes of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66(4), 742-752. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.66.4.742 Cauffman, E. & Steinberg, L. (2000). (Im)maturity of judgement in adolescence: why adolescents may be less culpable than adults. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 18(6), 741-760. doi: 10.1002/bsl.416 Joireman, J., Sprott, D. E. & Spangenberg, E. R. (2005). Fiscal responsibility and the consideration of future consequences. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(6), 1159-1168. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.05.002 Sheina, O. & Martin, H. (2006). Temporal framing and the decision to take part in type 2 diabetes screening: effects of individual differences in consideration of future consequences on persuasion. Health Psychology, 25(4), 537-548. doi: 10.1037/0278-6133.25.4.537 Howlett, E., Kees, J. & Kemp, E. (2008). The role of self-regulation, future orientation, and financial knowledge in long-term financial decisions. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 42(2), 223-242. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2008.00106.x Toepoel, V. (2010). Is consideration of future consequences a changeable construct? [Article]. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(8), 951-956. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.02.029 Primary use / Purpose: Designed to assess the extent to which people emphasize short-term or long-term consequences Background: Given their intertemporal nature, one factor that predicts health behaviors is an individual’s CFC (i.e., the extent to which people consider the potential distant outcomes of their current behaviors and are influenced by those potential outcomes; Strathman, Gleicher, Boninger, & Edwards, 1994). The Consideration of Future Consequences Scale (CFC) is a 12- item scale using 5- point ratings. (1 = extremely uncharacteristic to 5 = extremely characteristic). An example of an item is "I consider how things might be in the future, and try to influence those things with my day-to-day behaviour." Psychometrics: For psychometrics information see: Strathman, A., Gleicher, F., Boninger, D. S., & Edwards, C. S. (1994). The consideration of future consequences: Weighing immediate and distant outcomes of behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66(4), 742-752. Web link to tool: http://www.sjdm.org/dmidi/Consideration_of_Future_Consequences.html Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.13072/midss.487 Scoring Generally, the CFC Scale is scored so that higher numbers indicate a greater consideration of future consequences. To do this, items 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 should be reverse-scored. This can be done by creating a new variable which is "6-response" for each of the reverse-scored items. These seven new variables should then be summed along with the five items which need not be reversed (items 1, 2, 6, 7, 8).

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