Object of research: time perspective.Subject of research: the relationship between the dominant personality time perspective and defensive mechanisms.Methods of research. In order to perform the given research tasks, the following methods were used: theoretical methods (problem logical method, induction, abstraction, generalization, systematization, modelling), which were used to summarize the theoretical and methodological background and observation findings of the research; the experimental method (the method of duration reproduction with a visual stimulus); methods of psychological diagnostics and mathematical treatment (methods of descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, discriminant analysis, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis H test). The method of psychological diagnostics comprised: an experimental method of duration reproduction, the technique of "Causometry": "Forming a list of events"; "A cyclic time test" ("Cottle's Circles Test"); the technique of "Inversion of remoteness. Forming a list of events" (A. Kronik, Y.I. Golovakha), the technique of "Time decentrations" (A. Kronik, Y.I. Golovakha), ZTPI - Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory adapted by A. Syrtsov, O.V. Mitina, the diagnostic technique of personal time disorganizers by A.V. Kuzmina.The scientific novelty of the obtained results consists in the fact that for the first time: representation of different psychological defense mechanisms with differences in the emotional intensity of the time perspective and the attitude to the lifetime organization is shown; the classification of personality types of time orientation is given (retrospective, trans-spective, perspective); psychological defense complexes of different types of time orientation are established; an analysis of the relationship of the features of the time orientation display within the rates of content, formal, and organizational factors of psychological time and time perspective is carried out;the profiles of intensity of time perspective indicators in the groups with different time orientations are established; the predictors of relations between time zones of psychological time are established (the factor "Fatalistic Present" and separate scales of personality time disorganizers); a comparative analysis of the average values of the share of actual, realized, and potential relations is conducted characterizing the indicators of intensity of psychological time; in the content of the psychological time, three spheres of life events are highlighted: education and professional activities, the sphere of interpersonal interactions, and the personal sphere, and the peculiarities of their manifestation for individuals with different psychological time duration periods are demonstrated; the phenomena of "impoverishment of the past" and "losses of childhood" in the group with the dominant duration of the past are established; three characteristic trends of inversion of events are demonstrated; the factors that affect the individuals' ability to self-organize their time are established.The practical importance of the results obtained lies in the fact that the results of the study of the parameters of psychological time, time perspective features and psychological defense complexes for different types of time orientation may be used during lecture courses "General Psychology", "Time in the Human Psyche", "Differential Psychology" and special courses "Psychology of Time" for the psychological department students of Odessa I.I. Mechnikov National University (statement of adoption No. 23 of 12 March 2014) and South Ukrainian K.D. Ushinskiy National Teacher Training University (statement of adoption No. 14 of 21 May 2015 г..), in the course of practice of the psychological support department of the National Police in Odessa region (statement of adoption No. 4 of 28 January 2016), during psychological counseling.Scope institutions of higher education, psychological services.
