Keyword: «autobiographical self»

The article discusses current scientific approaches to the problem of studying personality, based on biographical methodology. Classifications of areas of biographical research available in domestic and foreign literature are described. A comparative analysis of the indicated methodological approaches of biographical studies of personality has been carried out; the features of each individual direction are disclosed in detail; general features characteristic of biographically oriented approaches to the study of personality are derived. Some philosophical and methodological aspects characteristic of biographical research are derived and identified.