Peculiarities of Personal Self-Improvement in Early and Late Adolescence

Julia Gorbaniuk,Oksana Serhіeіenkova,Tetiana Yablonska

doi:10.21277/sw.v2i8.344

Abstract

The article analyzes the peculiarities of personal self-improvement in early and late adolescence. The age, individual psychological and gender characteristics of adolescents influencing their real and ideal self-images, the directions of desired changes and selfimprovement motivation are revealed. The peculiarities of self-improvement of girls and boys are characterized; self-improvement tendencies during the specified age periods are analyzed. The process of personal self-improvement has distinct individualpsychological colors, which is determined primarily by the peculiarities of personal characteristics, self-awareness and motivations.

Highlights

Researching on personal self-improvement is important nowadays because a person’s ability of constant development and self-improvement is really essential under the conditions of social changes
Real self-images of the boys in late adolescence manifest more expressively the characteristics of “DistrustfulSkeptical” type compared with those in early adolescence (p=0.01) and their conscious desire to improve these characteristics: there is a significant difference for these characteristics between real self and ideal self (p=0.05)
New data have been obtained that reveal how adolescents’ certain individual and psychological traits, as well as the correlation between real self and ideal self are related to motivation for self-improvement and formation of its conditions and mechanisms, the characteristics of people prone to self-improvement and the ones who are not prone to it are specified

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Introduction

Researching on personal self-improvement is important nowadays because a person’s ability of constant development and self-improvement is really essential under the conditions of social changes. Studies of self-improvement are important for adolescence when biological, psychological and social maturation of an individual takes place (Craig, 1996). Adolescents begin to think about their own individual peculiarities, ways of further development and professionalization, which stimulates their desire to improve their physical parameters, improve their skills, competences, develop certain personal traits. The research on peculiarities and motivation for self-improvement of adolescents will help to find methods of psychological assistance for their development, as well as means of psychological correction in case of developmental deviations

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