The correlation of emigration attitudes of Russian residents with ideas about time and life situation

<p><strong>The relevance</strong> of the study is related to the intensification of emigration after the start of Special military operation. The uncertainty of the life situation, the inability to predict the development of events, and the mechanism of social modeling have led many Russian residents to an increase in emigration attitudes and an unprepared move. <strong>The theoretical basis</strong> of the research: the concept of stages of the migration process by L.L. Rybakovsky, the model of migration attitudes by S.A. Kuznetsova, the work of O.V. Alexandrova, I.B. Dermanova in the field of psychology of the life situation, the work of L.I. Wasserman et al. in the field of time concepts. <strong>Hypothesis</strong><strong>:</strong> there is a negative relationship between the emigration attitudes of Russian residents and ideas about time and life situation. <strong>Sample</strong><strong>:</strong> 129 residents of Russia, including 35 men (27.1%), 94 women (72.9%) aged 17 to 55 years (M = 24.7, SD = 9.3). <strong>Methods</strong><strong>:</strong> questionnaire for collecting socio-demographic data; author's “Scale of emigration attitudes”; “Semantic time differential” (Vasserman et al., 2005); “Semantic differential of life situation” (Aleksandrova, Dermanova, 2018). <strong>Results</strong><strong>:</strong> no differences were found in the severity of emigration attitudes among Russians of different genders and age groups. However, residents of the regions have statistically more pronounced emigration attitudes than residents of Moscow and the Moscow region. Emigration attitudes negatively correlate with almost all scales of the “Semantic time differential” and generalized factors of this questionnaire (Present, Past, Future), as well as with all scales of the “Semantic differential of the life situation”, except for the “Understanding the situation” scale. <strong>Conclusions.</strong> Russian residents with emigration attitudes tend to have a negative interpretation of their past, present, and future, and they perceive their life situation as difficult, uncontrollable, and intractable. For residents of Russia who do not have emigration attitudes, the attitude to time and life situation is the opposite.</p>