Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 27th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview General Session Author(s) Laura Petrosyan Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia Yerevan Armenia Galstyan Alina, Title Devising a Method for Studying the Social and Psychological Maturity of Specialists File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Laura Petrosyan Abstract The main objectives of the following paper is to find out the criterias that describe personal maturity and to make a tool for measuring the manifestations of those criterias. This tool can be used as method for the measurement of social and psychological maturity of a person. In order to assess the level of personal maturity, we have chosen certain maturity criteria based on the approaches of G.Allport, W.James, A.Lazurski, V. Zankovski, A.Maslow, N.Berdyayev and other theoreticians [3,4, 6,8]. G.Allport was the first to introduce a concept of mature personality in psychology stating that psychoanalysis never refers to a mature personality in terms of his/her maturity. Unlike many theoreticians, whose theories are built on the study of unhealthy or immature people, Allport never had any experience of studying psychotherapy and did not consider that medical examinations may be used for constructing a personality theory. He refused to believe that mature and immature people in essence have common features. He believed that many of his contemporary theoreticians could not define a healthy man; they even did not make any efforts to describe him. As a result, a testing method has been developed which helps to assess the social and psychological maturity of a person. This method can be used either in personnel selection process or in the situations where gaining information about the person’s social and psychological maturity is important.
