ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Structure of time perspective in combatants with amputated limbs

Nikishina VB, Petrash EA, Yunina-Pakulova NYu, Lukyanov ES
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Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Ekaterina A. Petrash
Ostrovityanova, 1, Moscow, 117997, Russia; ur.liam@hsartep

About paper

Funding: the study was conducted within the framework of the State Assignment of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation No. 122051700017-2.

Author contribution: the authors contributed to manuscript writing equally.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (protocol No. 57 dated 21 September 2023); the informed consent to examination was submitted by all subjects.

Received: 2024-06-24 Accepted: 2024-06-28 Published online: 2024-07-31
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The relevance of the reported study results from the need to clearly define the target of psychological impact in combatants with amputated limbs. The time perspective being an integral characteristic ensures the life experience integrity: all life events are intertwined within the boundaries of the past, present and future. The study was aimed to assess the time perspective structure in combatants with amputated limbs. The sample consisted of 78 males aged 20–53 years, who had combat experience and underwent treatment or rehabilitation after getting injured. The study involved the use of the Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related PostTraumatic Stress Disorder, Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, method for event-based reconstruction of a person’s time perspective by V.B. Nikishina and E.A. Petrash, SR-45 method by P.I. Yunatskevich, infantilism inventory by A.A. Seregin. The factor structure of time perspective in combatants with amputated upper limbs includes the factor of non-reflexive future, factor of limited time perspective, and the situational and behavioral risk factor. In cases of amputated lower limbs, the situational future factor, past orientation factor, and situational and behavioral risk factor are represented. In cases of no amputated limbs, the combatants’ time perspective structure includes the factor of reflexive future perspective, factor of limited present fatalistic, and past orientation factor.

Keywords: time perspective, amputation of limbs, post-traumatic stress disorder, combat experience

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