The system of self-attitude, attitude towards significant people and the world of adolescents who are maltreated in the family

The article is devoted to the study of self-attitude and the attitude towards significant people and the world of adolescents who are exposed to such types of abuse in the family as physical and emotional abuse. 172 adolescents of age 12–15 years were studied. The main group consisted of 86 adolescents who are under the school monitoring and defined as the “being in a difficult life situation” and also adolescents, who are exposed to emotional and physical violence in the family ( the cases were registered by school social service). The control group was formed from 86 adolescents who were not exposed to emotional violence and physical punishment in the family. The following research methods were used: empirical (observation, conversation, questioning, testing), questionnaires – Self – attitude inventory (S.R. Pantileev); “Diagnostic of the level of empathy” inventory (I.M. Yusupova); aggression status inventory (Bass–Durkee Hostility inventory); projective method “Incomplete sentences” (M. Saks, S. Levy), projective drawing technique “My world” (E.S. Romanova, T.I. Cake). Statistical processing was performed using a non-parametric test for two independent variables, U-Mann–Whitney. As the main psychological consequences, a high degree of dissatisfaction with oneself, negative attitude towards parents to a greater degree towards fathers, weak expression of empathy, high aggressiveness, sensitivity and suspiciousness, negative vision of the surrounding world were revealed.