Time perspective and orientation of teachers with different attitudes to time

Abstract

The article with the involvement of empirical data reveals the problem of the temporary organization of the life and activities of teachers. Subject of research: characteristics of the time perspective and orientation of teachers with time freedom, dependence, infantilism, as types of relation to time. Purpose of research: peculiarities of the time perspective and orientation of teachers with a different attitude to time. Methods and objects of research: the respondents were 174 teachers teachers of secondary schools. They used a psychodiagnostic complex, which includes author's developments the "Scale of subjective attitude to time" and the "Time" questionnaire, as well as the "Time Perspective Questionnaire" (F. Zimbardo). Main results of research: it has been established that teachers with temporary infantilism are characterized by a "negative past and orientation towards the future". They are characterized by a harmonious temporal orientation they strive to move into the future, using the resources of the past, but in the present. Teachers with temporary dependence are distinguished by a "positive past and ascetic present". In a temporary orientation, teachers with this attitude to time are more focused on the future ("live" them) than on the present and past. Teachers with temporary freedom are characterized by a temporary perspective distinguished by a "fatalistic ascetic present with an orientation towards the future". Nevertheless, in a temporary orientation, teachers focus more on the past than on the present and future, trying to use the resources of past experience to develop themselves and their potential.