| Abstract [eng] |
The time management nowadays gets bigger importance not only for solving people’s personal time problems, but for better life quality too. The outlook of present and future is concerned with the ability to plan time properly, so it can be stated, that attitude into time becomes determinant and from which depends person’s psychological welfare. Better time planning lets to make every day more productive and lets to single out the most important activities. It is very important for people, who work in education institutions. The purpose of this research – to evaluate pedagogues’ attitude to time planning and its connections with psychological welfare. The goals: 1) to evaluate and compare ratings of time planning and psychological welfare between different age pedagogues; 2) to evaluate and to compare men’s and women’s peculiarity of time planning and psychological welfare; 3) to reveal possible connections between time planning and psychological welfare ratings; 4) to estimate time planning connections with demographic characteristics. These methods were used in this research: the first version of Lithuanian psychological welfare scale, Psychological time questionnaire, Time styles’ questionnaire, Demographic questionnaire. Total number of participants in this research was 100. The research was carried out in eight educational institutions of Silale’s district. The results of this research showed that the age is connected with the time planning and psychological welfare in many aspects: senior respondents’ orientation to the future ratings are bigger than the younger ones (Z=-3,761, p<0,001). The younger participants’ self satisfaction (Z=-2,470, p=0,014), satisfaction with interpersonal relationship (Z=-2,532, p=0,011), ratings of expediency are bigger than the senior (Z=-3,053, p=0,002). The differences of men and women were determined with some aspects of psychological welfare: men’s ratings of negative emotionalism are bigger than women’s (Z=-2,105, p=0,035). Self satisfaction with interpersonal relationship (Z=-3,099, p=0,002) and expediency (Z=2,087, p=0,037) ratings bigger are women’s. Time planning differences between men and women weren’t defined. Time planning is connected with less negative emotionalism (0,002), with general satisfaction of life (p=0,000), bigger satisfaction of yourself (p=0,000), bigger satisfaction of living level (p=0.000), bigger satisfaction with interpersonal relationship (p=0,001), bigger expediency (p=0,000), satisfaction with family and relatives (p=0,034). Statistically important time planning connections with some sociodemographic data were received: higher work experience is connected with time planning p=0,004, orientation to the future (p=0,011). Bigger number of children is connected with bigger ratings of time planning (p=0,034), orientation to the future (p=0,003), organized (economical) time ratings (p=0,018). |
