Psychological characteristics of a volunteer's personality maturity

The problem of studying the psychological characteristics of the maturity of a volunteer's personality lies in the fact that there are contradictions between maturity as a value of global importance, focused on universal human views and determining the direction of human activity, and insufficient information about the social behavior of groups engaged in volunteer activities. Subject of the study: psychological characteristics of the maturity of a volunteer's personality: social responsibility, self-actualization, altruism and empathy. Research hypotheses: 1) There are differences in the psychological characteristics of the maturity of the personality of volunteers and persons not involved in volunteer activities, which are expressed in higher values for volunteers: - an indicator of social responsibility; - a general indicator of self-actualization, with a predominance of scales of orientation in time, value, the need for knowledge, the desire for creativity; - the level of altruism; - the total indicator of empathy, with a pronounced emotional channel of empathy. 2) The structure of interrelations of social responsibility, altruism, self-actualization and empathy differs between volunteers and people who are not involved in volunteer activities. The following methods were used in the study: the "Scale of social responsibility" by L. Berkowitz and K. Lutterman (according to K. Muzdybaev). Diagnosis of self-actualization of personality A.V. Lazukin's method in adaptation by N.F. Kalin. Diagnosis of the "altruism-egoism" personality attitude Fetikina N.P., Kozlova V.V. and Manuylova G.M. Methodology for diagnosing the level of empathic abilities of V. V. Boyko. The article provides a comparative analysis of the psychological characteristics of the maturity of the personality of volunteers and persons not involved in volunteer activities. Among the psychological characteristics are highlighted: social responsibility, self-actualization, altruism and empathy. As a result of the conducted research, it was revealed that participants in volunteer activities show a high level of altruism and self-actualization compared to people who do not volunteer. There were also differences in the structure of the relationships between these indicators. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that participation in volunteer activities contributes to the development of altruism and self-actualization, and conclusions were drawn about the level of maturity of the volunteers' personality. It can also be concluded that one of the conditions for the psychological development of maturity as a value is the organization of volunteer practices in the educational process.

maturity of personality, volunteering, altruism, empathy, social responsibility, self-actualization, spirituality, value orientations, voluntary activities, spiritual development