The Link Between The Attitude To The Covid-19 Pandemic And Time

Abstract

Recently, scientists and publicists have called our life time extraordinary, they are writing and talking about the consequences in our life caused by COVID-19 pandamic. In the undertaken empirical study, the relationship between a person's attitude to time ("Time Attitude Scale") and the manifestation of fear and anxiety during the second wave of the pandemic (author's survey) was studied in Russia. The online study involved 827 people. (46.1% female, 53.9% male; 17-75 years old, average age 37.3). The obtained data indicates a psychological break in the time continuum "past - present - future" during the pandemic. In contrast to the past and future, the present turned out to be an emotionally intense part of the crisis consciousness, being separated from the past and the future. The pandemic subjectively destroyed the linearity of the personality’s time. The results of regression and discriminant analysis have showed that the attitude to time is a stronger predictor of the attitudes to the pandemic than gender, age and income level.