Unresolved contradictions of personality in life movement towards maturity

Occupation: Head of the Center for Fundamental and Сonsultative Personology of the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Moscow; 20, Myasnitskaya St.

V. Koltsova

Occupation: Deputy Director, Head of the History of Psychology and Historical Psychology Chair at Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Moscow; 13, Yaroslavskaya St.

E. Maximova

Occupation: Graduate student of the Consulting Phsychology & Personology Program
Affiliation: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Address: Moscow; 20, Myasnitskaya St.

Journal name

Psikhologicheskii zhurnal

Edition

Volume 40 issue 4

Pages

15-31

Abstract

The study is devoted to the problem of unresolved contradictions of personality in movement towards maturity during different age periods. It has been aimed at identifying different types of unresolved contradictions of mature personality as well as ways of dealing with them. Theoretical and methodological context for studying the above problem are studies of modern integral trends in methodology of personality, the concept of general personology, the periodization of life development of the personality, studies of the life of the personality, the concept of life relations and life contradictions of the personality as well as the concept of development of Self and personal maturity. During the study there have been used such methods as modelling, hermeneutic, biographic, reflexive and pshychodiagnostic. There has been developed the theoretical model of studying unresolved contradictions of personality and the method of reflexive biographical interview. There has been conducted the empirical study which lead to discovery of conscious unresolved contradiction of mature personality mostly pertaining to childhood and current ages. There have also been discovered dominating types of unresolved contradictions such as I-want vs I-reach, Other-in-Self vs Self-in-Other, I-potential vs I-reachable and Value-of-Other vs Value-of-Self. There have been defined leading ways in which the mature personality deals with unresolved contradictions such as hanging the contradiction, not finding adequate resolution to contradiction with the intention to find it, living through defeat in attempts to resolve contradiction. There have been discovered dynamic impact on life, subjective acceptance and opportunity of active reflection of unresolved contradictions of mature personality.

Keywords

Personality, life movement, maturity, unresolved contradictions, Self, reflection, types of contradictions, ways to deal with contradictions.

Received

04.06.2019

Publication date

26.06.2019

Number of characters

43372

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GOST	Starovoytenko H., Koltsova V., Maximova E. Unresolved contradictions of personality in life movement towards maturity // Psikhologicheskii zhurnal – 2019. – V. 40. – issue 4 C. 15-31 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://psy.jes.su/S020595920005365-7-1 (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S020595920005365-7
MLA	Starovoytenko, H., Koltsova, V., Maximova, E. "Unresolved contradictions of personality in life movement towards maturity." Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 40.4 (2019):15-31. DOI: 10.31857/S020595920005365-7
APA	Starovoytenko H., Koltsova V., Maximova E. (2019). Unresolved contradictions of personality in life movement towards maturity. Psikhologicheskii zhurnal 40(4), pp.15-31 DOI: 10.31857/S020595920005365-7

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