Effects of education on the assessment adolescents' probable future

The results of a comparative study of representations of teenagers on the positive and negative events of their likely future. The study involved 54 adolescents who were left without parental care, and 138 young people being cared for at home. Experimentally studied range of optimistic, pessimistic, forecasting a balanced ambiguous and likely future developments teenagers. For teenagers without parental care, is the prevailing optimistic and ambivalent prediction of the future, while among adolescents raised in a family, are more common optimistic and balanced assessment of optimism-pessimism in predicting future events.