PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME AND BEHAVIOR SELF-REGULATION AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF ADULTHOOD
The purpose of our research was to identify the correlations between the features of psychological time and behavioral self- regulation of personality in different periods of adulthood.We used such psychological inventories as: 1) The Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) and The Transcendental- future Time Perspective Inventory; 2) The method of determination of psychological age by evaluating the richness of life in dif- ferent 5-year timeslots of E. Golovakha and A. Kronik; 3) «The Semantic differential of time» of L. Vasserman et al.; 4) «The style of behavior self-regulation» of V. Morosanova; 5) The questionnaire «The level of subjective control» of E. Bazhin, E. Golynkina, A. Etkind.There were 122 adult people (18-55 years old) participated in our research: 47 men and 75 women.We used such mathematical methods as: 1) Descriptive Statistics; 2) MANOVA on such factors as «gender» and «employ- ment or unemployment»; 3) Post-Hoc Multiple Comparisons with assumption of equal variances by Scheffe for 3 age groups;4) Bivariate Correlations of Pearson in 3 age groups.We confirmed our main hypothesis: the features of psychological time are correlating with behavior self-regulation of per- sonality. And the structure of these correlations is different at 3 stages of adulthood. We also identified time perspectives, features of subjective perception of time and their correlations with behavior self-regulation and internality of personality prevailing in different periods of adulthood. The most integrated structure is in the early adulthood (the characteristics of present and future are central); in the middle adulthood there are a lot of correlations with future time features; in the late adulthood present is in the center as before.