Соотношение субъективных характеристик и объективных критериев личностной зрелости студентов

Abstract

The category of «personal maturity» is increasingly in the focus of scientific research including the ones imple-mented using experimental psychosemantic methods. The purpose of this work is to study the correspondence be-tween of subjective characteristics and objective criteria of personal maturity of students. The main hypothesis of the study is based on the assumption that subjective ideas of students about the level of their own personal maturi-ty do not coincide with its actual, objectively manifested level. While studying subjective ideas of students about the level of their own personal maturity, a specialized semantic differential technique was developed. The crea-tion of research tools of this type is carried out in several stages, including identifying of evaluation objects, iden-tifying of evaluation scales, testing of a specialized semantic differential. Empirical data obtained through appli-cation of a specialized semantic differential was processed by means of exploratory factor analysis. As a result, two factors «Subjective Position» and «Positive Attitude» were identified. Subjective characteristics of personal maturity are reflected through the position of the object «My present Self» in the semantic space of these factors. Ideas about personal maturity in students who perceive themselves as personally mature and immature are gener-ally identical as evidenced by a similar pattern of the location of most evaluated objects, however, the position of the object «My present Self» is different which allows us to distinguish two contrasting groups of respondents. According to the psychodiagnostic evaluation, students who perceive themselves as personally immature demon-strate a higher level of personal maturity: they are more responsible, independent, autonomous, etc. The presented algorithm for developing a specialized semantic differential technique can be useful for researchers studying un-conscious, latent, poorly instrumented psychological phenomena