THE ANALYSIS OF FRUSTRATING SITUATIONS EXPERIENCE BY CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL SUPPORT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CHILDREN BEING AT FOSTER CARE AND BROUGHT UP IN THE ORPHANAGE)

Guidance of children without parental support is the topical problem of modern society. At the same time, the education of children according to the traditional pattern of guardianship and custody, which is an orphanage, is built not taking into account the adequate psychological conditions providing full development of children. This study is meant to reveal an aspect of the experience of frustrating situations by children being at foster care and brought up in the orphanage. The results of the study allow declaring the value of foster care. The leveling of reactions to the frustrating situations is clearly visible with children being brought up in a family, and the indices of self-assessment in this group are also closer to the normal values. Frustration as a psychological phenomenon is considered as an object of the study of this paper, and the experience of problem situations by children without parental support is considered as the subject for the study. The author makes the following assumptions: children being brought up in the orphanage are characterized by the range of peculiarities in the demonstration of reactions to the problem situation in distinction from children being at foster care; there is the relation between the nature of problem situations overcoming by children without parental support and the self-assessment.

It is determined that children living in the family react to frustrating situations less badly, they perceive themselves able to cope with the problems, their self-assessment is close to adequate. Children being brought up in the orphanage have self-assessment close to inflated; they perceive problem situations as the inevitable and non-controllable. The author noted the positive role of foster care for the development of comprehensive personality of a child.