| Abstract [eng] |
Parents’ emigration results in changes in the family structure and the relations in the family system that fundamentally replace the usual and well-established order. Such transformations may require larger internal resources from a child and endanger his / her favourable psychological adjustment. The approach of developmental psychopathology was employed for the problem analysis. One of the ideas raised in the developmental psychology studies is that a successful psychological adjustment of children, which manifests itself through a low level of behavioural and emotional problems and a high level of competences, is essentially determined by an interaction of a number of experienced factors and their cumulation rather than a result conditioned by an isolated factor. Therefore, firstly psychological adjustment of children exposed to parents’ emigration is evaluated in this work, the expression of its indicators is compared with those of children in the national sample, children exposed to different forms of separation from their parents and children without such experience and on the basis of the repeated research, possible pathways of change in psychological adjustment of children are studied. An attempt is also made to apply the idea of multiple risk and cumulative risk for the analysis of the problem of children-parents separation: to identify the factors that may comprise the multiple risk of such children and to evaluate their importance interpreting children’s psychological adjustment. |
