Elena Denisova

The paper analyzes individual-typological and characterological features of patients with diabetes mellitus. The authors reflect the position of foreign and domestic scientists on the relationship of the individual features and the current conflict and disease; allocate general and specific personality traits of men and women. Statistically significant differences of character and personal features of both men and women are singled out.

The paper is devoted to a problem of matrimonial satisfaction in families with different experience of marriage. Each of spouses of character of the matrimonial relations considers matrimonial satisfaction as value judgment. The empirical research proved that there are distinctions in hierarchy of factors of satisfaction of spouses in young and mature families: credibility, ease in communication and material security are valuable for young families; while for mature families the most important factors are similarity in views and emotional support.

This article is devoted to a problem of social and psychological adaptation of elderly people. Adaptation in work is considered as ability of the personality to carry out the leading activity, to satisfy the main sotsiogenny requirements, to endure conditions of self-affirmation and free self-expression of creative abili-ties. Features of adaptation and disadaptation of elderly people, communication of adaptation with the leading spheres of life at this age are studied.

The paper analyzes problems of individual’s adaptation in terms of system-integrative properties of its structure. Adaptation as a complex of multi-faceted and multi-level process is considered by the authors in terms of a systematic approach that allows to analyze the complex of psychological components of personality that are related to each other and form an integral unity.

The paper is devoted to women's self-realization in period of youth and maturity. Self-realization is seen as a systemic psychological education, psychological characteristic of self-study of women at different ages. The authors reveal the features of professional, social and personal self-realization of women within the framework of a systematic approach, the priority for each type of individual self-realization at a certain age level, including the context of prevention of role conflict.