Temporal Aspects of Lifestyle in the Kamchatka Territory

Abstract

This article introduces lifestyle and temporality as subjective time that includes characteristics of all life activity processes. The research involved residents of the Kamchatka Territory in the Russian Far East. A regression analysis provided equations that revealed the common temporal specialties of time perspectives in conjunction with lifestyle. The parameter of the past in the time perspective structure lacked coordination and combined negative and positive characteristics. It reflected a certain predetermination in life path construction with a deficit of activity where the subjects would have to oppose themselves to the world and environment. The parameter of the present revealed hedonism and fatalism that blocked future life planning and a life predetermination forms (I cannot control my life). Hedonistic present and fatalistic present were essentially different. However, the equation analysis showed a common element in the lifestyle structure that connected hedonistic and fatalistic present and defined the vector of human life. In the present, respondents relied on their social contacts as a friendly resource, on compromise as a life strategy, and dependence of inner and outer parameters as an inevitability of the world. The Future appeared to be an unstable construct with predominating fatalism. The temporal specialties of lifestyle revealed inability to resist and oppose the world, which manifested itself in inflexibility and inability to change a preplanned set of action. Respondents organized their life space by following some instructions and relied on them to make their behavior rational and organize their life. Neurotic conflicts and lifestyle disharmony manifested themselves as polar and incompatible aspects of assessment and description.