THE RISK OF SUICIDE, THE PROBLEM OF TIME PERCEPTION AND THINKING ABOUT TIME IN YOUTH

Time perception plays an important role in human life as one of the complex types of perception, which is one of the levels of sensual cognition. Consideration of the idea of time perception in the context of idealistic and materialistic approaches is based on the assumption that the corresponding concept is a feature of the human psyche or exists independently of it. In this sense, the concepts of objective time and subjective time are distinguished. As a result of our study, it was determined that there is a two-way very weak negative and significant relationship (rspearman = -.081, p = .020) between young people's thinking about time and suicide risk. It was found that there was a significant difference between the scores of groups with past tense thinking and future thinking (p = .006), the scores of groups with present tense thinking and future thinking (p = .002). As a result, the mean suicide risk of youth with future-oriented thinking was lower than that of youth with past and present-oriented thinking.