Data for: Time Will Tell: Time Perspective as a Source for Metacognitive Emotion-Focused Coping and its Measurement

The file contains survey data from N = 911 participants. The 37 TCI-Items have been generated to measure individual differences on four temporal coping strategies: Impermanence focus, present centeredness, positive temporal refocussing, and negative temporal contrasting. The data has been analysed to develope the final 20-item version of the Temporal Coping Inventory. The file contains sociodemographic information, such as age, gender, education, but also biographical information (critical life events, acute level of distress), and a rough measure for time perspective.