Ideas of adolescents prone to vagrancy about parents

Statement of the problem. To solve the challenges of parent-child relationships among adolescents prone to vagrancy and their parents, it is necessary to know what ideas adolescents have about their parents. We believe that if we take into account the features of existing ideas about parents among adolescents prone to vagrancy, we can introduce changes into these structures. By correcting negative ideas about parents while working with the underaged, it is possible to harmonize child-parent relationships and thereby reduce the possibility of repeating deviant behavior. The purpose of the article is to describe features of the ideas about parents among adolescents prone to vagrancy. The research methodology consists of the analysis and generalization of works of foreign and Russian researchers related to the study of ideas about parents and vagrancy as a social process closely related to the situation in a family. Research methods. Twenty teenagers who are getting treatment in a residential facility for minors (Krasnoyarsk) were involved in the study of the ideas about parents of adolescents prone to vagrancy. The sample includes: 10 adolescents who are not prone to vagrancy and 10 adolescents with a medium intensity of a vagrancy syndrome. The following tests were used as diagnostic tools: “Scale of Leaving and Vagrancy” (I.V. Makarov), “Adolescents about Their Parents” (ADOR) by I. Schaefer (modified by Z. Mateychik and P. Rzhichan), “Parent-Child Relationships” (S.V. Lippo, S.T. Posokhov). To describe personality characteristics of parents, we used the test “Five Statements” which is based on the test “Twenty Statements” by M. Kuhn, T. McPartland. To summarize and analyze empiric materials, mathematical methods of statistical data processing were used: descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney test. Research results. The authors assumed and empirically proved that the ideas about parents among adolescents prone to vagrancy differ from the ideas about parents among adolescents who are not prone to vagrancy. The research gives an opportunity to identify significant criteria in the ideas about a father among adolescents prone to vagrancy (hostility, directivity, proximity factor, demographic and socio-psychological characteristics: age, education, profession, hobby, bad habits, as well as frequency and satisfaction with relationships with a father, emotional coloring of these relationships) and the ideas about a mother (hostility, autonomy, inconsistency, criticism factor, demographic and socio-psychological characteristics: age, education, profession, hobby, bad habits, as well as frequency and satisfaction with relationships with a mother, emotional coloring of these relationships). Conclusions. The results of the research allow identifying features of the ideas about parents among adolescents prone to vagrancy which are of practical interest for intervention with adolescents prone to vagrancy and have disturbed child-parent relationships, as part of the system of social services and psychological assistance.