The article is devoted to the study of the assessment of past experience in connection with the peculiarities of the value-semantic sphere of students aged 19 to 21 years. It presents a comparative analysis of the results of the study of students of the Faculty of Psychology with various attitudes to past experience, by dividing them into two groups with a positive and neutral-negative assessment of past experience. The analysis is carried out on the basis of a number of techniques that allow one to see the substantive aspects of the value-semantic and motivational spheres of students. The study of value orientations in groups was carried out, differences in the level of significance of the studied values for the respondents were revealed. The study of terminal values showed that a happy family life is the main one for the group with a positive attitude to the past, while for the second group health, love and self-confidence are more important. With regard to instrumental values, it was revealed that a group with a positive assessment of the past considers responsibility as the most important, while the other emphasizes honesty. It was found out that groups with a positive attitude to past experience are distinguished by greater satisfaction with the results of life in the present period of time, meaningful life process and a higher level of motivation.
The article is aimed at analyzing the features of life style and meaningfulness of life among students depending on different attitudes to time. The analysis of modern studies of time perspective as a category of psychology is presented; the main components of meaning-life orientations, locus-control of the Ego are described. The object of the study was university students from 18 to 21 years old in the number of 294 people. The following methods were used: F. Zimbardo's time perspective questionnaire; D.A. Leontiev's "Life Orientations" test; Kellerman-Plutchik Lifestyle Index questionnaire, Mann-Whitney U statistical criterion; Spearman rank correlation. It is proved that depending on the respondents' attitude to the time perspective, both the level of meaningfulness of life and the strategy of behavior in stressful situations change. It is concluded that respondents with a focus on the future have a greater meaningfulness of life, they also are more tend to setting life goals. Moreover, the leading types of life styles statistically differ, depending on the the responders’ attitude to time.