Time Perspective of Forced Migrants within the National Boundaries and Abroad

Authors

  • Viktor Plokhikh Department of General Psychology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Maidan Svobody 4, 61022, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • Ihor Popovych Department of Psychology, Kherson State University ul. Universytetska 27, 73003, Kherson, Ukraine
  • Nataliia Shevchenko Department of Psychology, Zaporizhzhia National University ul. Zhukovskyi 66, 69600, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
  • Olga Losiyevska Department of Psychology and Sociology, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University ul. Ioanna Pavla II 17, 01042, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • Anzhelika Kolly-Shamne Department of Psychology, Kherson State University ul. Universytetska 27, 73003, Kherson, Ukraine
  • Rustem Akimov Department of Sociology and Social Work, al-Farabi Kazakh National University ave. al-Farabi 71, 050040, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2025.2.125.142

Abstract

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.

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Author Biographies

  • Viktor Plokhikh, Department of General Psychology, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Maidan Svobody 4, 61022, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of General Psychology at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Author of more than 100 scientific publications (monographs and articles). Member of the editorial boards of scientific periodicals: “V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Bulletin. Psychology Series”; “Science and Education. Scientific and Practical Journal. Psychology”; “Scientific Bulletin of Kherson State University. Series “Psychological Sciences”. Member of the Dissertation Council D 41.053.03 at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky. Research interests: psychological time, time perspective of personality, anticipatory processes, regulation of mental states, and psychological defenses.

  • Ihor Popovych, Department of Psychology, Kherson State University ul. Universytetska 27, 73003, Kherson, Ukraine

    Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Full Professor of the Department of Psychology at Kherson State University (Kherson, Ukraine). Guarantor of the educational program “Psychology” (PhD). Head of the project EU program Erasmus+, the area “Development of Higher Education Potential”: “Boosting University Psychological Resilience and Wellbeing in (Post-) War Ukrainian Nation” (101129379 – BURN – ERASMUS-EDU-2023-CBHE). Author of over 300 scientific publications, namely, monographs, textbooks, chapters, articles, more than 130 of them have been indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal “Insight: the psychological dimensions of society” (Scopus).

  • Nataliia Shevchenko, Department of Psychology, Zaporizhzhia National University ul. Zhukovskyi 66, 69600, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

    Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Psychology at Zaporizhzhia National University, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, Excellent Worker of Education of Ukraine. Author of more than 350 scientific and methodological publications (monographs, textbooks, and articles). Editor-in-Chief of the professional journal “Journal of Modern Psychology”, member of two editorial boards of professional journals “Psychology and Society” and “Journal of Psychology Research”. For 15 years, he has been Member of the Dissertation Council D 26.053.10 at the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University (for 15 years). Member of the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists.

  • Olga Losiyevska, Department of Psychology and Sociology, Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University ul. Ioanna Pavla II 17, 01042, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Professor of the Department of Psychology and Sociology of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, mediator of the National Mediator Network of the CSO “Lastrada-Ukraine”, Head of the University Center for Mediation of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, Member of editorial boards of the scientific journal “Dnipro Scientific Journal of Public Administration, Psychology, and Law” of the Public Scientific Organization “Foundation of Public Legal Initiatives” and the scientific journal “Journal of Psychology Research” of O. Honchar Dnipro National University. Author of scientific publications, including monographs, manuals, methodological developments, and articles in international journals.

  • Anzhelika Kolly-Shamne, Department of Psychology, Kherson State University ul. Universytetska 27, 73003, Kherson, Ukraine

    Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the Department of Psychology at Kherson State University.  Author and co-author of more than 160 scientific publications, participant in numerous international conferences, author and co-author of 7 monographs and 6 textbooks on psychology, Expert of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (area of knowledge – 053 Psychology), member of the editorial board of the scientific journals “Humanities Studies: Pedagogy, Psychology, and Philosophy” and the Kherson University Bulletin (Ukraine).  Member of the Ukrainian Psychological Association of Psychologists (area of knowledge – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). Internship at ORS Groupe, a Swiss organization for the reception and social welfare of refugees (300 hours), studying at the Master’s program in psychology at the Swiss University Uni Distance.

  • Rustem Akimov, Department of Sociology and Social Work, al-Farabi Kazakh National University ave. al-Farabi 71, 050040, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    Master of science in petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California. Bachelor in petroleum engineering at Satbayev University. Awarded with the outstanding masters award at USC. During master studies was the president of Society of Petroleum Engineers. The area of scientific interests – examining intellectual immigration of Kazakhstan youth.

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Plokhikh, V. ., Popovych, I. ., Shevchenko, N., Losiyevska, O., Kolly-Shamne, A., & Akimov, R. (2025). Time Perspective of Forced Migrants within the National Boundaries and Abroad. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 16(1), 125-142. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2025.2.125.142