Modern maturation

Tolstykh N.N.
Doctor of Psychology, Division Head of the Social Psychology of Development, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-4503
e-mail: nnvt@list.ru

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On a material of foreign and domestic studies discusses the problems of the modern get older involving the periods of adolescence, youth and early life . It is shown that different countries have different ideas about who is considered an adult, and that these representations, as well as markers of adulthood has changed markedly over the past decade. In most countries as a result of the recent socio-cultural changes observed lengthening of the period of adolescence that today not only ends with the end of adolescence, but takes almost the whole period of youth, covering the third dozen of human life. Along with the increase in time of maturing, there is a marked change in the content of such age periods as adolescence and youth.

Keywords: maturity, moratorium, adolescence, youth, early life, markers of adulthood, a sense of maturity, self-consciousness, collectivist culture, individualistic culture, socio-cultural changes

Column: The childhood in the XXI century: risks, threats, calls

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2015230402

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