Educational Acmeology. Developmental Psychology
ISSN 2304-9790 (Print)
ISSN 2541-9013 (Online)


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Social Expectations in Personal Evolution and Development

The article presents the results of studying social expectations of a personality. It emphasizes the significance and shows the role of social expectations as one of the major understudied psychological phenomena. The influence of this phenomenon can be traced at all stages of socialization and development of a personality in the ontogenic and professional aspects. The study reveals peculiarities of children’s and adults’ expectations.

Social-Cognitive Approach in the Research on Social-Psychological Maturity of Personality

The research provides the data of theoretical and methodological analysis of the essence of social and psychological maturity of personality from the point of view of socialization/individualization processes and the process of interpersonal interaction. Social-psychological maturity of personality has been regarded as a psychological construct appearing in the process of integration of social and individual components of maturity, such as subjectness, meaning and cognitive formation of personality.