The project now involves 24 countries: (Algeria, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, and USA) and final dataset has 12200 participants!
The management team members are: prof. Philip Zimbardo (USA), Nicolas Fieulaine (France), Altinay Erginbilgic (Canada) and Anna Sircova (Sweden).
The data analyses team consists of: prof. Fons van de Vijver (Netherlands), Evgeny Osin (Russia), Taciano Milfont (New Zealand) and Anna Sircova (Sweden).
The project diversity is mostly to our advantage, but it does make work on the project and our meetings challenging (due to very different time zones and variety of other commitments). We are progressing forward, but it does take time and sometimes other life events come into the picture. During this year two members of the team went through surgery and recovery, two other members became fathers and one member is going through immigration process and moving the whole household to a different country.
At the moment we are still working on our first paper mentioned in the publications plan in our Agreement. This paper deals with establishing the equivalence on difference levels (structural, metric and scalar) of different available translations of ZTPI, assessment of bias and validity issues. Part of the obtained results were presented at the at the XXth Congress of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology and 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, July 2010, Melbourne, Australia. The next part of the results will be presented at the 11th European Conference on Psychological Assessment, Riga, Latvia, August 2011.
The project is also attracting attention and interest from other group of researchers. Up to now we had two inquires to share our database.
One was from Gaël Brulé - who works at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and has a collection of data on happiness, both from cognitive and hedonic perspective and who is interested in comparing systematically happiness with time perception between countries. They use data from the World Database of Happiness, created by Ruut Veenhoven.
The second one was from Maciej Stolarski - PhD student, Warsaw University who would like to test how TP influences economical situation in countries of various cultural background and compare national TP profiles to some demographic variables.
We think that there will be future requests for the database and thus we are working on how to deal with these issues in the future. Right now our policy is as it was established in our Project Agreement: sharing dataset is possible only after having published the 3 first papers and our reply was:
"Our international research project on TP that covers 24 countries is still in progress and an agreement between all the data providers was established, which doesn't allow the distribution of dataset to anyone before publication of results in several papers. After those publications, the cross-cultural dataset will be available for other purposes, under some conditions that will be established later. You will find future information on our website: www.timeorientation.com "
But it is clear that we have to think about a new agreement in the nearest future that regulates distribution and access to the dataset. So we will come back to this shortly and your ideas and thoughts on the incidents and what our policy should be is greatly appreciated!