Keyword: «characteristics of personal self-realization; life orientations in middle age; characteristics of life orientations and self-realization in women and men»

The main specific feature that characterizes the midlife crisis is the change of life orientations and the transformation of self-realization components, which significantly affects the further life perspective of the individual. The purpose of the study was to examine the characteristics of the relationship of life orientations and self-realization components of a middle-aged person, taking into account gender identity. As a result, distinctive characteristics of the correlation of these psychological phenomena in middle-aged men and women were identified and described.