Time perspective in the professional activity of specialists of economic sphere

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.