НАУКОВИЙ ЗМІСТ КАТЕГОРІЇ «СОЦІАЛЬНО-ПРОФЕСІЙНА ЗРІЛІСТЬ» ОСОБИСТОСТІ

Abstract

The concepts of «personal maturity» and «professional maturity» are often used in the literature, which are not identical since they describe different psychological realities. Personal maturity is defined by the authors as a key new formation of age, which radically changes the previous social situation of development, as a psychological new formation. That is, professional maturity may be a relatively autonomous entity that does not necessarily correlate with personal growth. Personal maturity is characterized by a process of internal personal transformation, the source of which is the individual's need for self-actualization and sense of identity. Autonomy is determined as the most important feature. Personal maturity within the functional approach framework is considered as a self-regulatory system, where the main function is the transformation (regulation) of the ontogenetic development process into a purposeful, systemic, personality-given process that acquires individual features in the means, conditions and purposes of this development. It is known that the effectiveness of socio-pedagogical activities largely depends on the level of training, theoretical knowledge and practical skills of the teacher, one’s skills and abilities to establish contact with the student. In our opinion, the best indicator of the quality of socio-pedagogical training, primarily, is the effective implementation of future professional activities. We believe that the criterion for ensuring the effective performance of professional duties is a high level of future teacher’s socio-professional maturity development. Social maturity consists of individual components like any complex, integral phenomenon. Certain states of personality that accompany one’s activities in various spheres of public life act as such components. There are many approaches in the scientific literature to building the structure of social maturity and to identifying the components that are of most importance and play the role of «supporting element» of the «core» of social maturity.