Having Children Speeds up the Subjective Passage of Lifetime in Parents

Abstract A widely reproduced finding across numerous studies of different cultures is that adults perceive the most recent 10 years their lives to have passed particularly fast, and this perceived speed increases as they grow older. Potential explanatory factors for effect are believed be more routines in life we age well an increase time pressure during middle adult age, both would lead a reduced autobiographical memory load. Fewer contextual changes known cause passage faster. Taking advantage database created study first captured on subjective (Wittmann & Lehnhoff, 2005), investigated role having children plays speeding time. Adults aged between 20 59 who had reported over last subjectively quickly than same group without children. Factors such education or gender did not influence small correlation could seen fact parents with quickly. Experienced was differentiating factor two groups, associated faster all adults. Future systematic will reveal what might accountable clear raising has