In terms of futurology, individuals who think about the
future belonged to the thinking style with time. (24) Wallace
(1956) defined the extension of future time perspective (FTP)
as "the length of the future time span which is conceptualized.
Future time perspective has been conceptually understood as
the individual mental representation of the future, and
defined as an individual’s ability to move into the past
through the use of memory and/or to imagine the future. (14,
22) Future time perspective concept describes how much
time individuals believe they have left in their future and
how they perceive that time (5). Future time perspective has
to be distinguished from trait-like concepts, for example,
Zimbardo’s “future orientation” (28) and Bluedorn’s concept