PERSONAL MATURITY AND INFANTILISM IN THE SOCIAL BELIEFS OF DIFFERENT GENERATIONS
The article is devoted to the study of social beliefs about personal maturity and infantilism. For research was used questionnaire method. As the respondents were 258 people aged 17-78 years, the younger (157 respondents), medium-(59 respondents) and older (42 respondents) generations. On the basis of the obtained results have shown that the "mature personality" and "infantile personality" represent the poles of the binary social construct, reflected in social beliefs, close to the polar characteristics: "adult - child", "responsibility - irresponsibility", "independence - dependence", "experience - inexperience". Peripheral maintenance of social construct "mature person - infantile person" includes a lot of characteristics that reflect the regulatory, cognitive, reflective and moral personality characteristics. The obtained results also indicate that the social construct "mature personality - infantile personality" mediated by beliefs about the content of age and gender roles, and demonstrates the existence of "double standards" of personal maturity, which differ for men and women. On the basis of generalization of empirical data it is concluded that the social construct of " mature personality - infantile personality " at the level of social relations lies in the standardization and evaluation of development of personality in different social roles, changing as you move along life's path, while on a personal level this social construct performs the function of achieving / maintain a positive social identity, regardless of the objective position in the system of social relations.