Mishchykha L. Creative potential of a personality during the late adulthood period.

The dissertation focuses on the psychological analysis of a personality's creative potential during the late adulthood period. The holistic concept of a personality's creative potential during the late adulthood period is presented. The integrative and personal approach underlies its theoretical and methodological foundation. The accumulative and integrative model of a personality's creative potential during the late adulthood period and the accumulative and integrative model of realizing a personality's creative potential in the final stage of its life have been developed. The research substantiates the essence and structure of a personality's creative potential during the late adulthood period, which accumulates and integrates a personality's creative experience, its personal qualities as a creative personality, creative talent, and creative initiative with a personality's explicit readiness for creative activity in the form of continuing education. The theoretical and empirical studies have shown psychological peculiarities of a personality's creative potential in the late ontogenesis. The functioning of creative potential has been exposed when it is realized by a personality in its late period of life. It has been proved that a creatively gifted personality not only realizes its creative potential during the late adulthood period, but also accumulates it remaining creatively productive in the late ontogenesis. The psychological determinants of a personality's creative potential during the late adulthood period have been singled out. The psychological anti-aging of a personality has been justified as its psychological follow-up in the late period of life.