06. Miklyaeva A.V., Rudykhina O.V., Tolkacheva A.S. The Content of the Attitudes “I Am Now” and “I Am an Adult” in Adolescents with Different Characteristics of Personal Maturity

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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.110.027.202301.100-118

The Content of the Attitudes “I Am Now” and “I Am an Adult” in Adolescents with Different Characteristics of Personal Maturity

Anastasia V. Miklyaeva
Dr.Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor, Professor of the Chair of Human Psychology, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (48 Moika River Emb., Saint Petersburg 191186, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8389-2275, Scopus ID: 53984860100, Researcher ID: D-4700-2017, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Olga V. Rudykhina
Cand.Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor of the Chair of Human Psychology, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (48 Moika River Emb., Saint Petersburg 191186, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8207-4016, Scopus ID: 57223035494, Researcher ID: K-6560-2018, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Alexandra S. Tolkacheva
Postgraduate Student of the Chair of Human Psychology, Junior Researcher at the Institute of Psychology, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (48 Moika River Emb., Saint Petersburg 191186, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7307-3233, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract
Introduction. In the modern world, there is an expansion of the spectrum of transition trajectories to adulthood in adolescents and young people as well as the increased importance of “subjective markers of adulthood”, which represent a set of qualities of a “mature personality”. There is no idea about the specifics of the growing up trajectories among modern adolescents, taking into account their psychological characteristics. The purpose of the article is to investigate the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the images “I am now” and “I am an adult” in adolescents with different levels of personal maturity.
Materials and Methods. The survey involved 1 097 adolescents aged between 13 – 17. The method of contrast groups by the Self-assessment Scale of personal maturity allowed to identify subgroups of adolescents with high and low levels of personal maturity. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the attitudes “I am now” and “I am an adult” obtained by the modified “Who am I?” technique were compared in these subgroups.
Results. Regardless of the characteristics of personal maturity, adolescents include more elements in the attitudes “I am now” than in “I am an adult”; the core of both attitudes includes mainly the characteristics of the socio-demographic, formalized and individualized Self. Differences between the subgroups of adolescents with HPM and LPM include: different age dynamics of the number of elements in the attitudes “I am now” and “I am an adult” (a consistent decrease in the number of elements in adolescents with HPM against an absence of significant changes in the sample of their peers with LPM), as well as a more significant contribution of the characteristics of social-role functioning in attitudes “I am now” and “I am an adult” in adolescents with HPM.
Discussion and Conclusion. The research contributes to the understanding of the psychological characteristics of modern adolescents who are at the stage of transition to adulthood. The results will be useful for the practice of psychological and pedagogical support of growing up and psychological counseling on personal self-determination in adolescence.

Keywords: the attitude “I am now”, the attitude “I am an adult”, personal maturity, adolescents, transition to adulthood

Acknowledgements: The research was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation as part of a state task (project No. FSZN-2020-0027).

Conflict of interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

For citation: Miklyaeva A.V., Rudykhina O.V., Tolkacheva A.S. The Content of the Attitudes “I Am Now” and “I Am an Adult” in Adolescents with Different Characteristics of Personal Maturity. Integration of Education. 2023;27(1):100–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.110.027.202301.100-118

All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Submitted 20.07.2022; revised 14.11.2022;
accepted 21.11.2022.

Author contribution:
A. V. Miklyaeva – formulation of the research problem; selection of theoretical materials; statistical analysis of data; critical analysis of theoretical and empirical materials; drafting the text of the article. O. V. Rudykhina – selection of theoretical materials; collection and processing of empirical data; discussion of results; formatting the text of the article; design of the list of references. A. S. Tolkacheva – selection of theoretical materials; collecting empirical data; discussing the results.

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