Table 1.

General FTP and OFTP items.

Research focus	Items
General FTP (Carstensen and Lang, 1996)	(1) Many opportunities await me in the future
	(2) I expect that I will set many new goals in the future
	(3) My future is filled with possibilities
	(4) Most of my life lies ahead of me
	(5) My future seems infinite to me
	(6) I could do anything I want in the future
	(7) There is plenty of time left in my life to make new plans
	(8) I have the sense time is running out (reverse coded)
	(9) There are only limited possibilities in my future (reverse coded)
	(10) As I get older, I begin to experience time as limited (reverse coded)
OFTP (Zacher and Frese, 2009; Zacher, 2013)	(1) Many opportunities await me in my occupational future∗
	(2) I expect that I will set many new goals in my occupational future∗
	(3) My occupational future is filled with possibilities∗
	(4) I could do anything I want in my occupational future
	(5) There are only limited possibilities in my occupational future (reverse coded)
	(6) There is plenty of time left in my occupational life to make new plans
	(7) Most of my occupational life lies ahead of me∗
	(8) My occupational future seems infinite to me∗
	(9) I have the sense that my occupational time is running out (reverse coded)
	(10) As I get older, I begin to experience time in my occupational future as limited (reverse coded)∗

^∗Items that were included in the original OFTP scale by Zacher and Frese (2009).