Life-Purpose Orientations of Young Men and Women with a Different Self-Assessment of Psychological Age
In this article results of the research of life-purpose orientations of the young men and women who are underestimating, overestimating and who are adequately estimating their psychological age are considered. The presented groups differ in the general indicator of understanding the life, and also in such indicators: purposes in life, the process of life, control-Self locus and control-life locus. It is determined that the lowest tendency to the analysis of vital plans is observed in the group with the overestimated psychological age, the representatives of this group seem to be mature but they are not ready to be responsible for their life, and making of the life route does not always correspond to its purpose and tasks. The young men and women, overestimating the psychological age, «live in the future» and that is why they can perceive a long way to the planned purposes as almost realized, and that is reflected in the analysis of life plans and own potentials, real achievements in creativity, in career, private life. Young men and women with an adequate self-assessment of age, more than representatives of other groups considered by us, are capable to perceive themselves as the subject of the path of life, to manage their life, they are adjusted to search prospects and meaning of life, to make life plans and ways of their realization, they understand a natural character of the way, build the concept of life, coordinating the past to the present and future.