The specifics of time perception and management of life time in middle age, depending on the dominant status of ego identity

the article examines various aspects of time perception and time management in middle age, in relation to the dominant status of ego identity. Objective methods of psychodiagnostics (testing) are used in the work. The study showed the predominance of the autonomous status of ego identity in middle-aged people, which suggests that most of the subjects have reached a significant level of personal maturity. It has been shown that each type of ego-identity corresponds to a specific combination of skills in filling time with events and time management. It has been shown that the abundance of life time with various events causes the emergence of a subjective feeling of acceleration of life time, whereas the "emptiness of life", low eventfulness of time, on the contrary, enhances the subjective feeling of slowness over time. It was also revealed that internal determination in life time management increases the subjective feeling of slowing down the passage of time, as a person is personally and creatively involved in every moment of his life and fills his life with significant events for him, as well as controls the course of his life.

time perception, ego identity status, internal determination in time management, eventfulness of time, subjective acceleration of time, spheres of life in time distribution, personal involvement in time management