63 © Te Author(s) 2017 A. Kostić, D. Chadee (eds.), Time Perspective, https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60191-9_4 4 Balanced Time Perspective: Developing Empirical Profle and Exploring Its Stability over Time Britt Wiberg, Anna Sircova, Marie Wiberg, and Maria G. Carelli Introduction In this chapter, we shed light on the main characteristics of people with a balanced time perspective (BTP) profle. Who are those mythical people? What do they do in their daily life? What type of life do they have? What interests them? Who do they hang out with? What do they do on vacation? We were also interested in knowing whether the BTP profle would be stable throughout a person’s life and which events might be critical in afecting such stability, as well as how the balance difers among time perspectives. Undertaking this study, we tried to fll the gap in the current literature regarding studies with longitudinal design. B. Wiberg (*) • M.G. Carelli Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden A. Sircova Time Perspective Network, Copenhagen, Denmark M. Wiberg Department of Statistics, USBE, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden