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PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHOICE IN ADOLESCENCE AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD

Nikolaeva V.I
The article is devoted to the investigation of the developmental and gender features of personal choice as a criterion of psychosocial maturity in adolescence and emerging adulthood. In this paper by the “personal choice” we mean individual strategy of creating alternatives and preferring one of them. Personal choice is an informed (supraliminal) choice and is associated with readiness to undertake responsibility for decision making and its consequences. Those features describe personal choice as a criterion of psychosocial maturity. Empirical investigation was conducted on a sample of 328 participants (aged 12-25). Results showed that an ability to make a personal choice develops through the adolescence to the emerging adulthood (from 12 till 25). While cognitive comprehension of personal choice slowly develops through this period, the characteristics of truly accomplished personal choice stay approximately the same during this developmental period.

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Николаева В.И ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ ЛИЧНОСТНОГО ВЫБОРА (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ПОДРОСТКОВО-ЮНОШЕСКОГО ПЕРИОДА) // Научное обозрение. Психологические науки. 2020. № 1. ;
URL: https://science-psychology.ru/en/article/view?id=50 (дата обращения: 24.06.2026).