Keyword: «adolescence»

The article presents brief theoretical analysis of the self-attitude and life satisfaction problem, as well as the results of empirical research of the self-attitude and life satisfaction components among medical students. It analyses differences in components of self-attitude and life satisfaction among boys and girls; it states the relationship between self-respect, sympathy for yourself, internal instability and life satisfaction in adolescence.

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that many adolescents experience difficulties in the process of socialization. A family as an institution of primary social formation of the person can help a teenager to become a valuable member of the society or, on the contrary, to complicate the process. That is why, the aim of the article is the study of family influence factors on the results of the teenager socialization such as family structure (complete, incomplete), value orientations of parents, upbringing style (authoritarian, democratic, permissive), the type of parent-child relationships (dictatorship, guardianship, non-interference, cooperation). While conducting the study, we used the scientific method of domestic and foreign pedagogues, psychologists and sociologists scientific experience theoretical analysis, to research the problems of family influence on teenager socialization. We drew the conclusion that the family provides both direct (using the mechanism of supporting) and indirect (via the authentication mechanism) influence on the socialization of a teenager. The most important role in this process belongs to upbringing and its style: democratic style contributes to the social development of a teenager personality; authoritarian and permissive styles complicate it. Considering the type of family relationships, we admit that only cooperation between parents and children has a beneficial effect on the development of a person, capable of entering the society; dictatorship, guardianship and non-interference in family relations form in a teenager distorted patterns of behavior in society, which complicate its socialization. A favorable result of teenager social development depends on family structure too. So, one-parent family (usually lack of father than mother) weakens the social position of an adolescent in society, which in its turn leads to the problems in the relationship of the person with peers and adults. Two parents family helps to prevent such difficulties for teenager. The article may be interesting to teachers and students, who deal with the problems of family influence on teenagers socialization in such disciplines as social pedagogy, psychology, sociology. The article can be useful for parents of teenagers to understand how to ensure a successful adaptation of the child to the society.

The article deals with the theoretical prerequisites for the study of the personality characteristics of adolescents with different ideas about their parenting. The problem of understanding and determining the sovereignty of the psychological space of the individual in psychology is disclosed. Describes adolescence, as a sensitive period of registration of the sovereignty of the psychological space of the individual. The child-parent relations are determined as the determinant of the development of the sovereignty of the psychological space of the adolescent's personality.

This article discusses the features of adolescence. The author considers the concept of" image " and the formation of the image of an adult in adolescence. The author also presents the results of studies on the content characteristics of the adult image in boys and girls of adolescence.

The article deals with the issues of manifestation of shyness in adolescents, as well as psychological mechanisms of formation of shyness. Analysis of the problem of formation of shyness in adolescence shows that shyness affects the socio-psychological status of adolescents, the formation of problems related to the body, self-determination, communication. Features of manifestation of shyness in adolescence are analyzed, differences of the shy teenager