Personal factors of socio-psychological victimization of women-close relatives of people with alcohol dependence

The study is devoted to the identification and description of the specifics of victim identity, codependency and sovereignty of the psychological space as personal factors of socio-psychological victimization of women-close relatives of people with alcohol dependence . The methods used were the Spann-Fischer Codependency Scale, the Victim Identity Test by O . O . Andronnikova, and the Sovereignty of Psychological Space questionnaire by S . K . Nartova-Bochaver (SPP-2010) . The data was processed using primary statistics, Student's t-test, one-factor analysis of variance, Mann- Whitney U-test, Kraskell-Wallis, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient .The study sample consisted of three groups of women: mothers, wives and daughters of people with alcohol dependence . The total number of subjects is 90 people .The general trend towards high rates of codependency and low rates of sovereignty of the psychological space of all the studied groups has been revealed . Significant differences were identified between the indicators of the “Children” group and the rest of the sample on the scales of “Codependency”, “Sovereignty”, “Sovereignty of territory”, “Sovereignty of habits”, “Sovereignty of values” . It is proved that victim identity, codependency and the sovereignty of the psychological space are related factors, while the features of the relationships determine the specifics of the socio-psychological victimization of women-close relatives of people with alcohol dependence .