Keyword: «adulthood»

The article is devoted to the topical issue of a modern person confusion in the face of the "end of history" (F. Fukuyama): large collective projects, that invariably supplied a "historical" perspective to a "private" being, had exhausted themselves by the end of the twentieth century. However, this fact does not in any way cancel the request of individual existence for historical projection: the need for self-projecting of future is the fundamental attribute of human existence; the way of organizing time by individual consciousness (E. Husserl). The ability to handle time becomes today a key condition for authentic (joint-individual and, as a consequence, collective) historical existence. The pulsing present, which includes both the past and the future at the same time, becomes a platform for an "accurate" historical gestalt because of the "temporary fields" imposition (E. Husserl). Each taken separately modern "adult" (E. Erikson) individually experiences the "end of history" as a personal drama (the final resolution of the identity crisis in the "middle of life" (E. Erikson)), in which (with proper treatment of the past as a "fragment" of the present) he finds sources of further growth (a meaningful increase in volume (development of care meta-virtue) and the power of the ego) and personal future projecting. This idea of history (as a collective future emerging from authentic "personal" / local projects) is especially important for Russia, which is still concerned with the search for a "national idea" in the format of a "grand historical project": "the end of history" has come for everybody.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the relationship between life meaning orientations, psychological well-being and subjective life satisfaction in a sample of adults aged 20 to 60 years. The Riff scale of psychological well-being and the E. Diener scale of life satisfaction were used for the test of life meaning orientations. It was found that all indicators of CSF, psychological well-being and life satisfaction correlate positively with each other. No gender differences were found.; Age differences were found only on the scale of "autonomy". Regression analysis showed that a significant predictor of psychological well–being is life performance, life satisfaction is life performance, and the locus of control is life. The data obtained can be used in psychological counseling to enhance the subjective well-being of clients.