AGE-STATUS SELF-AWARENESS AS THE BASIS OF THE TYPOLOGYOF GROWING UP

Abstract

Aim. To study the possibility of identifying the typology of adolescent adulthood by the criterion of age-status self-awareness (SCD). Methodology. The main content of the study is the development of a typology of adolescent adulthood using the questionnaire “Age-status self-awareness”. Cluster analysis (K-means method) was performed on two samples and the number of observations in each cluster was considered. Using the Fischer criterion, a comparison was made between two samples based on the number of observations in each cluster. Results. Based on the study, three types of adolescent adulthood were identified: “a sense of adulthood”, “a sense of intermediate-changeable status”, and “unwillingness to grow up”. The percentage of types of age-status self-awareness in each sample was revealed. Comparing the number of observations in each cluster between the two samples showed significant differences across all types of adolescent adulthood. Research implications. One of the ways to study individual psychological features in the work on psychological and pedagogical support of children’s growing up at the stage of transition from childhood to adulthood in terms of diagnosing the type of growing up is proposed.