Differences in Time Perspectives Measured under the Dramatically Changing Socioeconomic Conditions during the Ukrainian Political Crises in 2014/2015

Oksana Senyk, Volodymyr Abramov, Viktoriia Bedan, Alina Bunas, Marharyta Hrechkosii, Olena Lutsenko, Tetiana Mandzyk and Marc Wittmann
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Oksana Senyk: Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Ukrainian Catholic University, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine
Volodymyr Abramov: Faculty of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 01033 Kyiv, Ukraine
Viktoriia Bedan: Faculty of Psychology, National University “Odesa Law Academy”, 65000 Odesa, Ukraine
Alina Bunas: Department of Psychology, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, 49000 Dnipro, Ukraine
Marharyta Hrechkosii: Department of General and Developmental Psychology, Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, 65000 Odessa, Ukraine
Olena Lutsenko: Department of Applied Psychology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 61000 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Tetiana Mandzyk: Department of Psychology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine
Marc Wittmann: Institute for Frontier Areas in Psychology and Mental Health, 79098 Freiburg, Germany

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 12, 1-12

Abstract: The characteristics of the individual’s time perspective in relation to changes in social, economic, and political conditions are of major conceptual interest. We assessed the time orientations of 1588 Ukrainian students living in two different regions (western and south-eastern Ukraine) with the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) before (2010–2013) and during (2014–2016) the socioeconomic, political, and military crises which started in 2014, eight years before the war in 2022. We applied ANOVAs with the ZTPI dimensions as dependent variables and the period of testing (precrisis, postcrisis) as an independent variable for the two Ukrainian regions separately. The time perspectives of residents in the region most distant from the war zone (western), who positively assessed the change in the political situation around 2014, increased in the future time orientation and decreased in the present-fatalistic , past-positive , and 333 present-hedonistic time orientations. The time perspectives of residents in the regions closest to the war zone (southeastern) decreased in the future and increased in the past-negative and present-fatalistic time orientations, reflecting their negative judgments of the events. It is not the crisis itself, but the specific social, economic, and political factors and evaluations which define the time perspectives, which are flexible and adjust to changes during extreme life circumstances.

Keywords: time perspective; time orientation; socioeconomic crisis; military crisis; political views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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