| Abstract [eng] |
The psychological researches more often analyze not the risk factors, but protective factors for children development. The essence of this study is quite new psychological statement –resilience of children. Resilience is the ability to respond actively and positively to life conditions, stress, and trauma in such a way that we are able to bounce back and continue to approach life with positive actions. This job reveals resilience construct concept including main factors for its formation. Here we can find main risk factors lowering children resilience with main defensive factors, supporting and developing resilience of children. Lots of researches, studying this theme, were created with children from divorced families or parents addicted to alcohol or drugs. Also there are made lots of researches with poor families or about children lost their parents in catastrophes. In modern society we more often find not only divorces, loss, but especially only - mother families. Meant family situation in resilience researches context has lack deeper attention and possible ways of supporting growing children resilience, there is also problem of identification. Children from only - mother families, growing without father or step father, more often than in two parent families face negative development factors. Considering experience of various authors was created a research of 12-14 y.o. children (60 members total) from mother only families and two parent families (control group).It’s not easy to reveal specifics of children resilience, because resilience is multidimensional statement, which can only be described by vast variety of features. In presented job, as resilience features were evaluated those variables: families’ social-psychological specifics, children self-esteem specifics (M. Rosenberg Self-esteem scale), children behavior strengths and difficulties (R. Goodman Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). The received results were compared between two groups. Found, that children from mother only family, dispose higher level defensive factors, developing and supporting children resilience. Also noticed higher self-esteem of these children. Although the SDQ of both research groups targeted to the norm interval, difficult behavior tendencies were found in mother only families. Summarizing results of research we see, that behavior of children from mother only families displays higher level resilience features than behavior of children from two parent’s families. This research revealed some resilience features, typical for 12-14 y.o. children from mother only families, also gave information for possible social-psychological support that is especially important for mother only families. |
