The presented research is a part of the broader project carried out in Poland to reconstruct the ways of experiencing the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Personal documents were obtained from psychology students elaborating daily their current experience in a written form – using proposed patterns (narrative “Subjective Figures”). The semantic analysis of 30 “Pandi-Diaries” was conducted by coders according to our Coding Sheet on three levels of text organization: content analysis, formal and meaning-making aspects. The results confirm other researchers’ reports about the visible domination of “avoiding” and/or “task-oriented” responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic’s first wave. Parallelly, results indicate the incomplete competencies of our Diaries’ Authors in their differentiation of internal states, and a kind of resistance in the use of the developmental potentiality which transcends survive and social adaptation tasks. The results can be applied in counselling, psychotherapy and supporting life-long “existential resilience” deep education activities.
The article presents the relationship between temporal perspective and wisdom transmission of the people in late adulthood to the younger generation. The participants were asked to write a short “Letter to a grandchild”. The letters written by 119 participants aged over 60 years old were analyzed qualititavely in terms of content and form, using categories from previous studies (Dryll, Tokarska, Cierpka, 2016). In order to assess temporal perspective the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI) by Philip G. Zimbardo and John Boyd was used (adaptation by Aneta Przepiórka, Małgorzata Sobol-Kwapińska and Tomasz Jankowski, 2016). A number of dependencies between transmission characteristics and temporal perspective scales was observed. The results follow a characteristic pattern where instead of the focus on timing (past, present, and future), an attitude (positive or negative) seems to be more important. The results do not support the concept of a balanced temporal perspective, which can be explained by cultural differences as well as developmental characteristics of the participants.
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