Personal maturity in the modern society of the 21<sup>st</sup> century
The article aims to carry out a comparative analysis of the concept “personal maturity” as a category of general psychology, criteria, indicators, approaches to the study of this concept, the development of ways to study it from the perspective of possibilities and limitations in psychology. The research methodology is based on acmeological (A.A. Derkach, A.K. Markova, V.G. Zazykin), activity-based (D.A. Leontiev), cultural-historical (L.S. Vygotsky, A.R. Luria) approaches and theories, foreign personology (G. Allport, E. Fromm, A. Maslow, C. Rogers), etc. The theoretical comparative analysis of sources, the logical content analysis of scientific papers as well as dissertations on the subject under study, participant observation are used to classify approaches to the study of personal maturity. The differentiation of the definitions of personal maturity and criteria makes it possible to conclude about the integral character of this term and the complex interdisciplinary approach to its study as the most successful and effective one. Personal maturity is a complex structural formation that includes various personal characteristics that are important and necessary to study in unity with other indicators and personality traits. It is included in the overall structure of personality and is interconnected with a number of personal peculiarities. Personal maturity is subject to the general laws of ontogenetic development and is characterized by heterochrony. These results make it possible to develop ways to study the concept “personal maturity”, their possibilities and limitations from the perspective of the theory and practice of psychology and to use them in psychological counseling.