Diagnostic Capabilities of "Temporal Modality of Life Fulfilment" Questionnaire

Abstract

The paper presents a variant of the methodological technique to express diagnostics of peculiarities of temporal perception and person's attitude to time. The article presents the approbation results of “Temporal modality of life fulfillment questionnaire”, which allow to define ones' relation to time, time direction, time expansion, saturation by events, differentiation, and structure systems. The questionnaire consists of statements with closed type answers. The scales are based on the following characteristics: past, present, future, positive relationship, negative relationship, real representation of time, emotional (seeming) representation of time. We present the results of psychometric testing of our method. The paper discusses the results of a pilot study using the developed questionnaire. The participants of the research are first year students of bachelor, specialist and master programs. The study was conducted on TSU students in 2021. The sample size is 145 students (25 males, 120 females). We evaluated the questionnaire scales structure with exploratory factor analysis. Three factors were found. Factor 1 is the “Emotional fixation on events” scale. Scale scores demonstrate emotional relation to a time, devotion to illusory time perception. Factor 2 is the “Time of life-fulfilment realization” scale. Scale scores demonstrate time realization. It includes plans structuring, activity effectiveness estimation, experience accounting, realistic time perception. Factor 3 is the “Modal estimates balance” scale. Scale scores demonstrate present time perception wholeness. Time satisfaction allows to estimate ones subjective successfulness in time. Construct validity, conducted by correlation analysis with F. Zimbardo's questionnaire (ZTPI), shows convergence between time constructs, which allow concluding that author's questionnaire could be used for temporal time perception studies. Based on the results we argue the verification of “Temporal modality of life fulfillment” questionnaire and further studies of its reliability.