Factor structure of person's time perspective modes in the context of actual meaning state experiences

The problem of the study of axiological aspects in unity with the temporal organization of an individual life way makes it relevant to study time perspective factors in the context of different types of actual meaning state (AMS) experience. The article describes the results of an empirical research of qualitative features of person's time perspective in different types AMS, these types are characterized by low and high levels of meaningfulness of time continuum modes. The study involved 103 people (men and women) aged 30 to 41. The total sample of respondents was divided into four groups according to the type of actual meaning state. The article attempts to compare the parameters of two groups, characterized by polar AMS types. It was found that the correlation of the various time perspective parameters varies with a different level of time loci meaningfulness: respondents with high indicators of life mean-ingfulness show a direct correlation between such parameters of time perspective as a negative past and future. These data can be explained by an assumption that for people with a high level of meaningfulness, negative attitude to the past is a kind of an internal resource to move to the future. Respondents with low indicators of life meaningfulness show a direct correlation between the hedonistic and fatalistic present and a reverse correlation between the indicators of the hedonistic present and future. Regardless of the level of meaningfulness, actual meaning state has a sufficiently strong correlation between the parameters of "negative past" and "fatalistic present". The analysis of the correlation system between the time perspective parameters and the components of life-purpose orientations revealed that a low level of meaningfulness of time continuum modes show inverse correlations of different degree between all life orientation components and such parameters of time perspective as a negative past and a fatalistic present. The study describes the factor structure of person's time perspective modes. This structure reflects an integrated system of assessment of a temporal life period. With a high level of meaningfulness of time continuum modes, the factor structure is characterized by differentiation and complexity. With a low level of meaningfulness of time continuum modes in the assessment of the personal past and present, affective orientations are most significant, the assessment of the personal future is characterized by increasing complexity and differentiation.

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