Youth personal identity as a factor in the formation of a time perspective

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of the personal identity of modern youth as a predictor of the formation of a time perspective. It is shown that in accordance with the nature of the structural organization of personal identity, the time perspective has its own characteristics. Young people with a consistent structural organization of personal identity are focused on a positive past, planning for the future, getting pleasure and enjoyment from life. In the case of a mismatched structural organization of personal identity, young people tend to negatively and pessimistly assess the events of their own past, as well as life in general, as not sufficiently pleasurable, a fatalistic attitude to life prevails, which is expressed in helplessness, hopelessness, lack of purposefulness, leading to a low satisfaction with life in the present and a desire to avoid planning for the future.