Keyword: «adolescence»

The article discusses the complex content of the concept of "sensitivity", presented in various sciences, considers the author's model of sensitivity. The experience of studying the sensitivity of personality abroad is described. A study of the sensitivity of young men was conducted and its results were presented.

The peculiarities of the attitude to the time of adolescents aged 12–15 years are studied. In the area under study, the analysis of available works allowed us to highlight the contradiction between the meaning of the attitude to time in the context of personality development in adolescence and the lack of knowledge of the characteristics of the attitude to time in adolescents. It is shown that in groups of adolescents aged 12–15 the following types of attitude to time: indifferent attitude to the past, positive attitude to the present and negative (anxiety, apprehension) attitude to the future.

The article is devoted to theoretical and empirical research of the phenomenon. anxiety in adolescence. The concept of "anxiety" as an individual psychological feature of a person is considered, the causes and consequences of a high level of anxiety in adolescence are determined. The final part of the article presents the results of an empirical study.

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the features of psychological defense mechanisms at different levels of personal anxiety in adolescence. The author concludes that with high personal anxiety, most psychological defenses are more intense than with a low level. At the same time, it is noted that at different levels of personal anxiety, the general trends in the distribution of results for individual mechanisms of psychological protection are similar.

The article considers the problem of the peculiarities of socio-psychological adaptation in adolescence, analyzes scientific research to understand this concept. A study of structural and level features of socio-psychological adaptation in boys and girls was conducted.