THE TEMPORAL PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF AGING PEOPLE
The paper analyzes the temporal characteristics in the old age. Previous studies suggest that the perception and the attitude towards the past, present and future forms an integrated structure of the temporal personality transspective, which has special features in the old age and is determined by the health and family functioning indicators. The study involved 150 people aged 51 to 80. Methods were used: Semantic tie differential (Wasserman L.I. etc.), modified method of Color metaphors (Solomin I.L.), international questionnaire of life quality (EQ-5D), and the biographical questionnaire. The study revealed generally positive temporal transspective with the change of correlation structures in various time zones compared to the adult period. Decentration to the past, decrease of activity and perception of the present, decrease in the structure integration of the future were also identified. A negative influence on a number of temporal characteristics of age, number of children, and the positive impact on extended family structure, quality of family communication were discovered. It was revealed that the health problems correspond to reducing the value of the present and the future, and to decreasing of the structure integration in the present and the past, and to reducing of the future perception. The interpretation of the results and their comparison with literature data is presented.