PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT OF A MODERN MAN IN THE PERIOD OF ADULTHOOD: INFANTILIZATION FACTORS AND FACTORS OF ACHIEVING PERSONAL MATURITY


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In the modern world, a number of features of an adult person’s view of life, which lead him to the personal immaturity (infantilism) and the insufficient professionalism, have broadly spread. Such view of life is based on the desire for easy insouciant life, full of pleasures, that is actively promoted by mass media. The paper concentrates on the identification of psychological factors contributing to the human exposure to influences preventing his full development and maturity, as well as the factors that allow countering these unfavorable influences.

The paper analyzes the works of Russian and foreign researchers published during the recent decade and considering the issues of personal maturity and infantilism, juvenilization of modern society, labor, idleness, game interest of adults, and demonstrative consumption. The author identifies characteristics of modern living conditions that, on the one hand, allow a person to develop progressively and, on the other hand, can be used for regressive development. The author summarizes the results of several empirical works carried out earlier, during which personal and professional development was studied in connection with the moral development, the ability to make a positive moral choice. 

The analysis of unfavorable tendencies in the development of adults in the modern world shows that the factors of susceptibility to infantilization are a number of features of a person’s internal attitude, as well as the failure to use the criteria of moral standards when assessing one’s actions and current events.

Based on the comprehensive analysis of works on the problem under consideration and the results of the author’s empirical research, it is concluded that the factors of progressive development and achievement of maturity are the following: a person’s having the inner position of an adult; a person’s engagement into labor activity according to the age norms; making positive moral choices in the situations of uncertainty; high level of moral development.

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Svetlana Valentinovna Agafonova

Astrakhan State University, Astrakhan

Author for correspondence.
Email: agafo-svetlana@yandex.ru

PhD (Psychology), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair of General and Cognitive Psychology

Russian Federation

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