@article{Chuyko_Komisaryk_2019, title={THE PROBLEM OF LIFE CRISES OF PERSONALITY IN PSYCHOLOGY}, volume={5}, url={https://apsijournal.com/index.php/psyjournal/article/view/483}, DOI={10.31108/1.2019.1.21.3}, abstractNote={<p>The article is deals with the theoretical analysis of the understanding of the concept of a life crisis in psychological science, which became the purpose of this work.</p> <p>It is stated that in psychology there are various definitions of the concept of a life crisis, its features, forms and stages of its experience and overcoming; its different types and even names, so that the most essential common to them, according to D. McDonald’s an exact statement, is that a person feels absorbed by it and oppressed in the state of a life crisis.</p> <p>It is noted that in the essence the life crisis is a constant accompanying of human life, a source of its development and self-improvement, self-realization; that, as an example of an existential crisis (which is one of the types of life crisis), is a crisis of the meaning of life, which is abnormal, difficult, long lasting with mainly destructive consequences for the personality and her life; it is a sharp feeling of despair and hopelessness from the real impossibility to satisfy their most important existential needs (in particular, the realization of the meaning of life) and existential values.</p> <p>It is emphasized on the necessity to differentiate the concept of the actual age crisis and the crisis of life’s meaning and the irrelevance of their association or identification; that only the results of this crisis, that is, actually, the situation of overcoming it, can be considered relatively positive, and the "development" of such a crisis for the person who is experiencing it is not "constructive", perceived as a catastrophe, a tragedy or even a collapse, and not just a revision of her priorities, values and life sense.</p> <p>It is concluded that the life crisis is a profound person’s experience the state of inability to continue the usual life linked with the necessity to re-evaluate the former values ​​of life and its meaning, changing of the self-perception and finding an acceptable way out of the situation that has happened; however, the process of its experience, as well as its completion, is not always constructive or optimal for a person. The reason for the crisis is a difficult life situation (caused both by external factors and internal situational changes), which makes impossible to continue the life path of personality (the realization of her goals, values ​​and meaning) in the usual way.</p> <p> </p>}, number={1}, journal={PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL}, author={Chuyko, Halyna and Komisaryk, Mariya}, year={2019}, month={Feb.}, pages={41–56} }