Experiencing loneliness in adolescence in relation to parent-child relationships

The issue of parent-child relationships in adolescence is rarely researched. period a crisis stage active restructuring the internal behaviors person and transformation external environments, including social situation development, when loneliness phenomenon acquires special significance. A both faces age-specific task forming intimacy finds resource state being alone with oneself. When studying this phenomenon, researchers consider it relation to actively changing relationships. hypothesis study that children parents, who demonstrate hypoprotection as leading type upbringing, experience more severe adolescence. An empirical relationship between characteristics relations was carried out on sample 96 “parent – child” diads, Mx=19.6 years, σ=1.9. To collect psychodiagnostic material, authors used “Analysis Family Relationships technique” by E.G. Eydemiller V.V. Yustitskis “Differential Questionnaire for Experiencing Loneliness” (short version) D.A. Leontiev E.N. Osin. As result statistical analysis, identified number regularities expressed reliable interrelations such disharmonious tendencies hyperprotection, insufficiency requirements-duties, requirements-prohibitions, immaturity parental feelings, projection one’s own undesirable qualities onto child, subjective loneliness, communication addiction. Using analysis differences, revealed parents demonstrating relatively low level addiction, show excessive minimal sanctions, educatory uncertainty.