A comprehensive study of personality development in social orphans of adolescent age 

Vol. 28 Iss. 2 pp. 6169 | St. Petersburg State Institute of Psychology and Social Work | ISSN: 1993-8101

Abstract

The article summarizes results of the study of personality development in social orphans of adolescent age. The role of personal self-regulation in personality development of social orphans is clarifed. The results of studying the specifcs of interrelations between the stage of ego development (according to the method, developed by Jane Loevinger) and mechanisms of personal self-regulation and identity parameters in social orphans, compared with non-orphans are given. The conclusion is drawn that individual personality traits can to some extent compensate for the unfavorable conditions of socialization in which social orphans are located.

* The article was made as part of Grant of the Russian Humanitarian Fund No. 17-06-01009 “Personal development during the transition from childhood to adulthood: psychological mechanisms, indicators and trajectories” [«Lichnostnoe razvitie v period perekhoda ot detstva k vzroslosti: psikhologicheskie mekhanizmy, indikatory i traektorii»].

Keywords

personality development, adolescence, social orphans

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