RELATION TO TIME AS RESOURCE CHARACTERISTIC OF PERSONALITY
An article involving empirical material discusses the problem of relation to time and the types of this relation, as a resource of the personality. The study sample was 183 people (100 women and 83 men) aged 27 to 35, all are Russian citizens living in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra, having higher education, practically healthy, being examined at the request of a psychologist. During the survey, a set of psychodiagnostic methods was used: «Scale of attitude to time», the questionnaire «Experiencing a crisis by the personality» and «Scale of general tolerance to uncertainty». It has been established that the resource characteristic of the individual is time freedom as the manifestation of the attitude to time. This supposes using time as a resource to realize yourself and your activity and is expressed in a favorable crisis profile. The negative attitude towards uncertain situations inherent in subjects with temporary freedom acts as the motivation for flexible restructuring of the time plan depending on the circumstances or their own desires, does not cause discomfort and anxiety. It has been shown that time dependence, as a phenomenon of relation to time, is an indicator of a decrease in personal resources, which is due to excessive psychological costs of controlling and managing their time, an indicator of which is an unfavorable crisis profile in combination with a reduced tolerance to uncertainty. Whereas the lack of value attitude to one’s time - as a resource for self-realization, manifests itself in calming and unwillingness to carry out any changes in oneself, in one’s behavior, to carry out the necessary transformations intensively, expanding the possession of the situation.