Understanding yourself and other children in adolescence

The article analyzes the understanding of themselves and other children in adolescence. The study was conducted using the following methods: the Method of "Tell me about yourself" (A. M. Shchetinina), the method of sociometry, test Kuhn and Mcpartland "Who am I?" The study showed that adolescents are characterized by a fairly low level of self-esteem and self-acceptance of their appearance; self-esteem of their appearance in most children is relative in addition, students have a sufficiently high level of awareness of their physical self. At the same time, quite a lot of teenagers are perceived by other students as not beautiful enough or even ugly; in terms of abilities, students perceive their peers quite one - sided-either as very capable (smart), or as very incapable (stupid); among students, the perception of their peers as definitely bad, evil people prevails.