TIME PERSPECTIVE OF FORCED MIGRANTS WITHIN THE NATIONAL BOUNDARIES AND ABROAD

Plokhikh V. Popovych I. Shevchenko N. Losiyevska O. Kolly-Shamne A. Akimov R.
27 June 2025 Pro Scientia Publica Foundation

Journal of Education Culture and Society
2025 #16 Issue 1 125 - 142 pp.

Aim. The aim is identification of differences in organisation of time perspective in forced migrants within the national boundaries and beyond the country under martial law in relation to prolonged psychological stress and steady changes in mental states. Methods. There were 136 young and middle-aged research participants: 59 forced migrants in Ukraine (Group 1) and 77 forced migrants staying abroad (Group 2). The methods used: “Time Perspective Inventory” (Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999); the scale “Time Competence” from the test determining an individual’s self-actualisation (Shostrom, 1964); the Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI, Form В) (Fahrenberg, Hampel & Selg, 2010). Results. The Mann-Whitney U-test allowed establishing the advantage of Group 2 over Group 1 by the parameters: “negative past” (U =1781.00; p =.031); “hedonistic present” (U=1620.00; p=.004); “fatalistic present” (U=1560.00; p=.002), and also the advantage of Group 1 over Group 2 by the parameters: “neuroticism” (U = 1715.50; p =.013); “sociability” (U = 1464.50; p <.001); “openness” (U = 1277.00; p <.001); “extraversion” (U = 1458.50; p<.001). Conclusions. Forced migrants try to orientate themselves towards the future and the positive past. Having a high level of neuroticism and openness to the surrounding, forced migrants in the country under martial law are characterised by disrupted balance of time orientations, and also reduced time orientations towards the hedonistic present, towards negative memories and expectation of fatal changes in the situation. The balance of time orientations of forced migrants staying abroad is close to the level which corresponds to the state of psychological well-being.

identity , mental state , military operations , past experience , personal resources , psycho-logical well-being , stress , time orientation

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Department of General Psychology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Maidan Svobody 4, Kharkiv, 61022, Ukraine
Department of Psychology, Kherson State University, ul. Universytetska 27, Kherson, 73003, Ukraine
Department of Psychology, Zaporizhzhia National University, ul. Zhukovskyi 66, Zaporizhzhia, 69600, Ukraine
Department of Psychology and Sociology, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, ul. Ioanna Pavla II 17, Kyiv, 01042, Ukraine
Department of Sociology and Social Work, al-Farabi Kazakh National University, ave. al-Farabi 71, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan

Department of General Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology and Sociology
Department of Sociology and Social Work

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