Klopova O.V. Single-parent families: personality traits development and aggressive behavior in teenage boys
Full text in Russian: Клопова О.В. Особенности формирования личности мальчиков-подростков из неполных семей
Pushkin Leningrad State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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The results of the study of individual-psychological features in teenager boys aged 11–13 and 14–15 from two-parent (n = 60) and single-parent (n = 60) families are presented. The dynamics of personality traits development in teenage boys from single-parent families is analyzed. The obtained data prove that teenagers from single-parent families are different in personality traits, self-esteem and aggression levels from those living in two-parent families. It is noted that single-parent family provides contradictory conditions for personality development in teenage boys and thus makes social adaptation difficult.
Keywords: single-parent family, teenager, personality traits, intelligence; self-esteem, aggression, negativism
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Received 16 October 2011. Date of publication: 30 June 2012.
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Klopova Olga V. Ph.D. Student, Department of General and Applied Psychology, Pushkin Leningrad State University, Peterburgskoe shosse, 10, 196605 Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Klopova O.V. Single-parent families: personality traits development and aggressive behavior in teenage boys. Psikhologicheskie Issledovaniya, 2012, Vol. 5, No. 23, p. 10. http://psystudy.ru (in Russian, abstr. in English).
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