[Time perspective, sleep and wellbeing of the elderly during COVID-19 pandemic]

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to analyze the association between the time perspective and the psychophysiological state of the elderly during the pandemic COVID-19. 433 residents from 11 Russian cities aged 60,8±9,8 years (range - 50-94 years, women - 78,7%) took part in the study. During the online survey, each participant of the study provided personal data (place of residence, sex, age, height, and weight) and completed the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, the Munich Chronotype Questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory and the Yale Food Addiction Scale. It was found that elderly people with a balanced time perspective had the lowest level of depression during the pandemic COVID-19 and less expressed sleep inertia at work days, while those with a past negative time perspective had the highest level of depression, high frequency of detection of food addiction and low sleep efficiency. The other types of time perspective (past positive, present hedonistic, present fatalistic and future) had intermediate values of indicators between these two extreme options. Thus, the conducted studies have shown that elderly people with a balanced time perspective showed the highest level of resistance to psychoemotional stress caused by the pandemic COVID-19.