PERSONAL MATURITY AS AN INTEGRAL ABILITY: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL RATIONALE

Abstract

The article substantiates the understanding of the phenomenon of personal maturity as an integral ability that provides an individual with the opportunity to implement the choice of directions and ways to carry out their own activities in accordance with objective conditions based on subjective criteria. We conducted a theoretical and logical analysis of scientific approaches to the psychological nature of the phenomenon of personal maturity, and found that scientists and researchers consider it in different ways and have not reached an unambiguous interpretation. The author's understanding of the essence of personal maturity as an integral property, which determines its ability to choose the content and methods of activity in accordance with the objective requirements of the situation on the basis of their own subjective criteria. A manifestation of this is the ability of the individual to motivated self-regulation of effective behavior, preservation of self-identity, ensuring personal potential, organization of living conditions and the realization of personal growth.

We have identified the psychological mechanism of formation of personal maturity by consolidating in the individual a system of abilities that function in a particular activity and ensures the assimilation of the individual objects of material and spiritual culture, which embodies human abilities. Theoretical and methodological analysis of the category of ability in terms of the dialectic of general, special and individual in the manifestations of mental. The psychological nature of personal maturity in a broad scientific and theoretical sense (at the general level), its specific characteristics in the context of current life situations (at the special level) and patterns of formation of individual configuration within the psychological space of personality (at the individual level).