Abstract:
The aim of the article is the research of time perspectives in the
professional activity of specialists of economic sphere. It is established that
specialists with experience more than twenty years have largely focused on
past and present, and specialists with experience of up to ten years on the
future. The methodological basis of the research was the concept of time
perspective. This methodology has been approved by researchers in the
study of adaptation disorders, anxiety, innovation. The representatives of
the professional group of specialists with experience up to ten years may
be more tend to strategic planning and the search for emotional support
in difficult situations; and specialists with experience of 10-20 years – to
a proactive and reflexive overcome. It is found that men are more express
for temporal focus of the “Future,” and women – for “Transcendent future”
(p≤.05). Women have a more expressed tendency to emotional immersion
in the events of the present, and men – structuring of current events and
planning future events (p≤.05). The received results should be used in
psychological counseling and estimation of staff.
