The Effect of Socio-Cultural Factors on Time Perception

Abstract

Current study examined relationships between income and place of residence of Estonians and Russians with their time perception. It was analyzed the data of 2227 residents of Estonia (1628 Estonians and 599 Russians ages 15 through 74 years, 972 men and 1255 women). Participants were interviewed with CAPI method (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) and completed Time Production Task (TPT). As a result, reported before tendency of Russians to underproduce time intervals more than Estonians (Maar, 2013) was confirmed. Russians underestimated time durations 6% more than Estonians. However, hypotheses that difference in time perception of Estonians and Russians associated with income and place of residence didn’t find it`s confirmation.