Abstract: Time estimation is very common and important in people’s daily life. The relationship between personality and time estimation has been explored for decades of years in western countries. Some personality traits such as extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, openness, impulsiveness, conscientiousness, delay, focus of control, yuppie traits and hippie traits, and type A were found to be related with time estimation. In addition, feedback is another factor which could influence time estimation. However, to our knowledge, no empirical study referred to the relation of personality, feedback and time estimation was published in China. This study wants to explore the relation of personal self-supporting, feedback and time estimation. Personal self-supporting is a primary facet of self-supporting personality. Self-supporting personality is a traditional concept in Chinese culture and is considered to be a positive personality. 40 subjects were chose from 766 college students according to their scores on the personal self-supporting subscale of Self-Supporting Personality Scale of Adolescent Students（SSPS-AS）. They were divided into high personal self-supporting and low personal self-supporting groups. Subjects were asked to complete picture puzzle and then estimation how long they used. One half of high personal self-supporting and low personal self-supporting subjects were told the results. And the other half were not told. The results showed that: (1) Though the absolute errors of time duration estimation of self-supporting high group were fewer than low group in the two times’ time duration estimation, the difference was not significant. (2) The range of variation of absolute error of time duration estimation of self-supporting high group was significantly lower than low group. (3) The correlation coefficient of absolute error of time duration estimation between the two times of self-supporting high group was higher than low group. （4）The absolute errors of time duration estimation of feedback group were fewer than no feedback group. The results support implied that the individual differences caused by personal self-supporting in time estimation may exhibit on variability of time estimation error and accuracy of time estimation. The variability of time estimation error of high personal self-supporting people is lower than low personal self-supporting people. High personal self-supporting people tend to estimate time more accurate than low personal se

Key words: Personal self-supporting, feedback, time duration estimation

摘要： 为了探索人格与反馈对时间估计的影响，本研究采用非时间任务和预期式时距估计的方法对个人自立高分组与低分组共40名被试进行了研究。结果发现：（1）虽然差异不显著，但是在两次时距估计中个人自立高分组的时距估计绝对错误量均小于低分组；（2）个人自立高分组的时距估计绝对错误量变化幅度显著小于低分组；（3）个人自立高分组在两次时距估计绝对错误量上的相关明显大于低分组；（4）有反馈组的时距估计绝对错误量显著小于无反馈组。据此可以认为：（1）由个人自立导致的时间估计的个体差异表现在时间估计的误差变异度和准确性两个方面。高个人自立者的时间估计误差的变异度更小，同时可能倾向于更准确地进行时距估计。（2）反馈有助于提高时间估计的准确性。（3）“绝对错误量变化幅度”和“时距估计绝对错误量的相关”是两个值得在今后的研究中应用的指标。

关键词: 个人自立, 反馈, 时距估计