Personal boundaries of space and time in pandemic situation on COVID-19

The article raises the question of the challenges faced by people in a pandemic situation. The specificity of the situation is revealed, it is shown that it is determined by the novelty of total physical, geographical, social and personal (mental) deprivation in the situation in which the entire population of the Earth is currently placed. The appearance of hard boundaries is universal. At the same time, the emerging barriers, both in their characteristics and in prevalence, are fundamentally new and important for research just at the present time, within the situation itself. The types of transitivity that appeared during this period, as well as the changes in spatial boundaries that actualize the question of the relationship between the virtual and real spaces of human life, are considered. Changes in time perspective, along with changes in both real and network spaces, are associated with a change in the degree of harmony of various aspects of the psychological chronotope and its internal form. The data of the first studies that reveal the attitude of respondents of different ages (17-23, n = 90; 45-60, n = 60) to the methods of obtaining information, behavior and ideas about the future in the situation of pandemic quarantine are presented. It is shown that the priority of the Internet as a way of obtaining information and trusting it is the same for both age groups. There are no major differences in the ideas about the future and behavior. The main differences between the two age groups are in time perspective and in the ways of using new technologies. The results obtained show that one of the leading factors affecting a positive psychological state in a pandemic and associated with it quarantine is a flexible combination of online and offline ways of working, studying and spending leisure time. The ability to harmoniously use the opportunities of real and virtual space gives a wider range of possible solutions to problems and difficulties connected with the deprivation of personal space and time.