ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ЖИЗНЕННЫХ СТРАТЕГИЙ ЗАМЕЩАЮЩИХ СЕМЕЙ

Abstract

This article presents a comparative analysis of the psychological personality characteristics of foster families and families without foster children. The article specifically focuses on foster family concept and consistently describes various forms of adopting children. While formulating the leading motives for adopting children and the main challenges of foster parents, the article also presents some methods of working with foster families in order to increase their willingness to adopt a child as well as facilitate mutual adaptation of parents and children. The concepts of life strategy, life satisfaction, and its fulfilment are also reviewed. The analysis in the article covers the structure of foster parents’ life strategies, including the vision of the future by the studied parental groups, the specifics of constructing a time perspective, a system of meaningful life orientations of the personality, and also establishes some psychological properties of the personality that determine the conscious life strategy construction. Special focus is placed on the differences in the development of the structural components of personality self-regulation, its reflection ability. The study uses the following psychodiagnostics techniques: questionnaire by V. Morosanova “The style of self-regulation of behavior-SSRB”, the test “Life satisfaction index A” (LSIA), adaptation by N. V. Panina, test «Life-meaning orientations» (methodology of LSS) D.А. Leontiev, estimation of five-year intervals (A. A. Kronik's method). The formulated conclusions allow to systemize the specifics of foster families in terms of their personal organization and can be used in consultative work with them.