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Abstract

Optimistic approach for the future makes creation of the new perspective sophisticated life plans possible, which could stimulate person’s activity. Positive setting provides possibilities to cope with negative life conditions as well. The purpose of this article is to provide comparative analyses characteristics of the youth generation vision and vision about the future of the country in long-term researches. Author’s method – "Future Vision scale" was used for this research. Two independent studies were conducted in order to approve working hypothesis. The first research, which was conducted in 2016, included 90 people aged 14 to 35, men and women who were students and workers. The second research, which was conducted in 2017, included 68 people aged 16 to 17, boys and girls from Lviv secondary school No 2. Probably those younger respondents were more optimistic in evaluation of the future of generation and country regardless of the study number (year). Respondents from the first study (2016) were more optimistic about avoiding generation’s negative future life events. In contrast, respondents from the second study (2017) were more optimistic about expecting generation’s positive future life events. All participants were partly optimistic about the future of the country. The participants of the first study were more optimistic about expecting positive life events and avoiding negative life events in the future of the country comparing to the participants of the second study. The young people, who responded to the research, were optimistic about the future of the generation and the country. However, we have to mentioned, that level of optimistic setting about the future of the country decreased and was at a very low level, especially in the second study (2017). The dynamic of the vision on the future of the generation and the country settings levels were relatedly negative. It was observed that the level of optimistic visions of the future of the country decreased

Keywords: relative optimism, future of the generation, future of the country, youth, vision of the future

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