THE PROBLEM CONCERNS OF MODERN TEENAGERS: RISKS AND RESOURCES
DOI: 10.23951/2307-6127-2017-4-166-174
The main problems of modern adolescents are considered in the article. Also the pilot study data of the most problematic areas in the life of adolescents are presented. The method “Psychological problems of adolescents” by J. A. Regush and co-authors was used. The study revealed that the respondents had an excess of a test rate towards the general indicator of problem concerns. The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem of the influence of children’s psychotraumatic experience on the further formation of an adult personality. The problem areas of adolescents aged 13–14 years have been analyzed and it is concluded that there are personal resources that allow to cope with a stressful psychological situation, for example, such a personal quality as vitality. The main approaches to understanding this phenomenon are revealed. The structure of vitality by S. Muddy, L. A. Aleksandrova, D. A. Leontiev, E. I. Raskskazova and others is analyzed. It has been theoretically proved that the phenomenon of vitality can be considered as an integral psychological property of a person which is being developed on the basis of active interaction with life situations and proves to be a necessary personal characteristics of modern adolescents.
Keywords: adolescent, problem concern, children’s psychological trauma, vitality, stress resistance, coping, hypercompensation
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Issue: 4, 2017
Series of issue: Issue 4
Rubric: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH
Pages: 166 — 174
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