Features meaningfulness of life among students with different attitudes to the time perspective as a component of sustainable social development

Abstract

The article is aimed at analyzing the features of life style and meaningfulness of life among students depending on different attitudes to time. The analysis of modern studies of time perspective as a category of psychology is presented; the main components of meaning-life orientations, locus-control of the Ego are described. The object of the study was university students from 18 to 21 years old in the number of 294 people. The following methods were used: F. Zimbardo's time perspective questionnaire; D.A. Leontiev's "Life Orientations" test; Kellerman-Plutchik Lifestyle Index questionnaire, Mann-Whitney U statistical criterion; Spearman rank correlation. It is proved that depending on the respondents' attitude to the time perspective, both the level of meaningfulness of life and the strategy of behavior in stressful situations change. It is concluded that respondents with a focus on the future have a greater meaningfulness of life, they also are more tend to setting life goals. Moreover, the leading types of life styles statistically differ, depending on the the responders’ attitude to time.