SPECIAL ASPECTS OF BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF MALADJUSTMENT OF TEENAGERS FROM DEPRIVED BACKGROUNDS

The paper covers the issue of the adolescent maladjustment. The author considers the basic domestic and foreign approaches to the understanding of social and psychological factors of maladjustment. The obtained empirical data reveal various aspects of the phenomenon under the study. Teenagers from deprived backgrounds participated in the study. Such social status is assigned by the social services and is officially accepted in the case of family abuse, needy family, alcohol involvement and the unemployment of parents. In such cases, a family is considered a difficult family. Teenagers grown up in such conditions are prone to the maladjusted behavior. The impaired interaction of a person with the society as a whole and oneself is understood to be the maladjustment. The examples of maladjustment are the non-normative lexicon usage, aggressive behavior, educational institutions non-attendance, poor progress, unauthorized leaves, addictions, stealing, and so on. The paper considers the multidimensionality of behavioral manifestations of the adolescent maladjustment. The author gives the empirical study data and uses the following methods of diagnostics – questionnaire, testing, supervision, and conversation. Based on the data obtained, the author analyzed the contradictions in the objective and subjective evaluation of the behavior of teenagers and compared the data of teachers’ observation and survey with the self-assessment of the behavior of the study participants. The unique data about the peculiarities of the behavior of teenagers in the informal groups are considered and the ideological beliefs of modern informal groups are described. The author gives certain examples of behavioral peculiarities and self-assessment of the maladjustment levels of the adolescents with different levels of the maladjustment symptoms and determined the contradictions between the maladjustment external manifestations and the internal assessment of personal behavior. Multiple consideration of maladjustment promotes the fullest understanding of its special aspects in adolescence.