Dominant types of temporality of socially non-normative adolescents

Abstract

The article, using empirical material, examines the problem of temporal characteristics of non-normative adolescents. The questions are revealed about whether the non-normativity of adolescents is interconnected with their tendency to certain types of deviant behavior, as well as whether there are differences in the types of temporality of adolescents who have different features of non-normativity and behavioral deviations inherent in it. The respondents were 197 teenagers (among them 100 girls and 97 boys aged 15 to 16 years), all citizens of Russia, students of secondary schools. The following questionnaires were used: “Normativity. Intelligence. Regulation”, “Tendency to deviant behavior”, “Subjective assessment of time orientation”, “Time scenario of personality” and “Subjective attitude towards time scale”. As a result of the study, three groups of adolescents were identified - normative, non-normative-creative (emotional) and non-normative-reproductive (calculating). It has been established that normative adolescent express resource temporality - a plastic attitude to time, a permissive time scenario and a resource focus on the present and future. Non-normative-creative (emotional) adolescents have an infantile-fixed temporality - an indifferent attitude to time, an infantile-permissive time scenario and a fixed time focus on the present, reduced volitional control of emotional reactions, a tendency to overcome norms and rules and aggressive behavior. Non-normative-reproductive (calculating) adolescents have a neurotic-fixed temporality - time dependence, a prohibitive time scenario and a fixed time focus on the past, a tendency to overcome norms and rules and delinquent behavior. In practical terms, the transformation of temporality can be one of the promising areas of psychological support for adolescents, in order to prevent and prevent their deviant behavior.