achievement motivation

The article presents the results of empirical study of time perspective peculiarities, conducted in a comparative aspect on the sample of senior pupils from urban and rural schools (N = 140). The following ques-tionnaires were used: «Motivation to Success» and «Motivation of Failure Avoidance» by T. Ehlers, «Morphological Test of Life Values» by V. F. Sopov and L. V. Karpushina, «Graphic Test with Time Circles and Lines» by T. Cottle, «Sentence Completion» method by D. Saks and S. Levy, test-questionnaire «Subjective Control Level» by G.

The results of the empirical research of coping strategies carried out on a selection of modern young people (n = 220; 19–30 years old) are presented. Appliance of questionnaires such as «Adaptive strategies of behaviours» by N. N. Melnikova, «Detector of coping strategies» by D. Amirkhan, «Scales of coping strategies» R. Lazarus, «Motivation to succeed» and «Failure avoidance motivation» by T. Ehlers, multiplefactor personality questionnaire by R. Cattell, J.