They call it differently: personal development, personal level, level of personal development, but when evaluating ourselves or other people, this is important for us: how developed is his intellect, independence, responsibility in a person? Can he be called a moral person? How characteristic is a positive, constructive, author’s position, the ability to determine one’s own life, the ability to manage oneself, to be stronger than circumstances? Is it a person-organism or a person-personality?
Caring about the development of young children, parents are initially more interested in their physical development and the development of their creative abilities: their ability to draw, hear and understand music, sing and dance. It’s time to send the child to school — at school the child receives a secondary education, then — a university. As for personal development itself, it usually occurs in the background during this period: circles, schools and universities for personal development are not yet common in our country. Personal development occurs more often spontaneously, when (and to what extent) parents teach the child the skills of independence, when the child, interacting with peers, goes through a school of socialization, when the child copies the behavior patterns of those around him and who is his authority.
Indicators of personal development:
- Development of intelligence: fool, adequate, smart, reasonable, wise. Intelligence development, Intelligence level,
- The development of emotional intelligence, the ability to empathize and empathize, possession of an arsenal of influence through emotions and feelings. In particular, the level of emotion control is determined by the Five Chairs test. Emotional trait (emotional trait — for example, irascibility — the tendency of an individual to experience one or another emotional state).
The development of the emotional sphere. Emotional level
- The volume of care, growing up: from a human child to an adult, then a big and great person. Steps from 0 to 2: 0 Children. Man-child — need (they need) comfort and directives. Teenagers are interested in advice and support, but struggle to be recognized as independent. 2 Established (adult) personality — Give advice and support.
- The level of development of initiative and responsibility. Namely, the steps are dependent, performer, specialist, responsible employee, middle manager, director, owner.
- Level of culture, which includes literacy, including psychological literacy. The development of culture. culture level.
- Level of mental health: from neurotic to healthy. The ability to be in harmony with oneself and others, the productivity of conflicts, love for oneself and others. See How to quickly recognize a person with good mental health.
- Education, aesthetic development.
- The ability to develop and the habit of development.
Each person has his own range of values, which determines both his growth and development, and his style of life. This is the focus of the individual. The three main directions of the personality are Personal growth and development, Personal life, Business-work-business. One way or another, adding up, different indicators give the General level of personality development. At the same time, some indicator of the level of personality development can be developed in one area (sphere) and not developed in another. See Square of Major Life Spheres
The level of personality development and the stages of a person’s life path
The level of development of a personality and the stages of a person’s life path are two different things. In the process of healthy natural growth, with age, a person goes through certain regular stages: an infant, a child, a teenager, a young person, an adult — with their own psychological characteristics. Which? And do they always pass? Different researchers describe these processes in their own way. See Age stages of personality development