FUTURE ORIENTATION IN HUNGARIAN SOCIETY

Two futures researchers from the Department of Futures Research of the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, and a psychiatrist studied future orientation in groups of healthy persons and patients. Around 3 50 persons reported on their interest, thinking and expectations on th e near and more distant future in time and space, and on the activitie s they perform in the interest of the future. Disorders in future orie ntation appear in Hungarian society today, identifiable in the discrep ancy between interest in the future and actions performed for the futu re.