FORMATION OF A TEENAGER'S PERSONAL IDENTITY AS A REFLECTION OF THE NEED FOR AUTONOMY
The article presents the features of the formation of a sense of personal identity of a teenager as a need for autonomy. One of the significant neoplasms of a teenager can be considered the formation of a sense of personal identity at the physiological (bodily), professional, ideological and moral levels. The sense of personal identity is based on the perception of myself as identical and the awareness of the continuity of my existence in time and space, on the one hand, and the perception of the fact that others recognize my identity and continuity, on the other. The urgent need of adolescents for autonomy and independence is manifested in their motivational attitudes aimed at acquiring autonomy in various areas of adolescent life, which is manifested in the desire for self-recognition, respect for oneself as a person, and respect from peers. Emotional autonomy implies the emancipation of a teenager from emotional dependence on parents, which he developed in early childhood. One of the most significant conditions for a person to achieve maturity and self-actualization is the formation of intellectual independence, which implies independence of thinking, independence in decision-making and awareness of responsibility for their consequences. Achieving intellectual autonomy is possible through the development of the ability to make one's own judgments, the ability to freedom and critical thinking. Behavioral autonomy is expressed in personal independence and freedom without the intervention of external control. Of no small importance is spatial autonomy, expressed in the need of adolescents to reduce the influence of physical contact with their parents, ensuring the inviolability of personal space, which is manifested in the desire of a teenager to have his own room, where he could retire from parental custody and be the sovereign master of his space. At the teenage stage of a person's age development, a hierarchical structure of needs, attitudes, and motives is formed, which ensure the development of the value-semantic sphere of a teenager's personality in the conditions of the formation of individual autonomy as a condition for self-identification of a person.