Personal and professional maturity as a resource for human development

Abstract

The article considers issues related to personal and professional development of a person. Assuming that human maturity can be a key characteristic of various stages of his/her development, a wide range of methodological approaches to understanding the categories of personal and professional maturity is analyzed, which made it possible to update them based on the approach from the standpoint of the life path, existential, axiological, activity and acmeological approaches. The semantic essence of the phenomenon of maturity as an interdisciplinary subject of scientific research is revealed: a certain state of personality development, characterized by its ability to self-realization and self-development in various aspects of life, determined by personal, social and professional experience. Personal maturity is considered as a stage of personal development of a person, determined by personal experience of realizing value qualities in activity and characterized by the ability and readiness of the individual for self-realization and self-development. Professional maturity is presented as a stage of professional development of an individual, characterized by a certain level of professional competence, which is determined by professional experience and is manifested in the ability and readiness of a person to carry out their professional activities systematically, productively and efficiently in various conditions, maximally realizing their personal potential. The conducted theoretical and methodological analysis of the concepts of maturity, personal maturity, professional maturity contributed to the introduction of the concept of personal and professional maturity and the disclosure of its semantic content. Personal and professional maturity is seen as a stage of personal and professional development of a person, determined by the subjective experience of behavior in a life situation and characterized by a meaningful manifestation of personal qualities (including professional ones) in interaction with other people/society and the culture of those social roles that a person plays throughout his life. The presented understanding contributed to the development of a level model of personal and professional maturity development, reflecting the dynamics of its development and the resulting positive or negative synergistic effect of development. The main principle of constructing the model was K. Graves’ principle of spiral dynamics.