Email this article DEFENSIVE-ADAPTIVE RESOURCES OF YOUNG MEN IN “FATHER–SON” RELATIONSHIP
- Authors: Semenova-Poliakh G.G.1, Yusupov I.M.1, Makhmudov G.M.1
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Affiliations:
- Timiryasov Kazan Innovative University, Kazan
- Issue: No 1 (2017)
- Pages: 83-89
- Section: Psychological sciences
- URL: https://vektornaukipedagogika.ru/jour/article/view/250
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18323/2221-5662-2017-1-83-89
- ID: 250
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The global statistics reveals high mortality of the male population of the planet. One of its factors is stress. Adaptation to stress actualizes a system of defensive and coping strategies of individual behavior. This system is formed within a family long before adulthood, in particular, in the relationship between father and son. The problem of dependence of young men’s defensive-adaptive resources on the relationship with the father in the family has not been sufficiently studied. Therefore, the aim of the present empirical research is to determine the dependence of defensive and adaptive resources of young men on the reflection of their fathers’ attitude to them.
A hundred of young men aged between 16 and 18, living in full families, have been investigated. The authors have used well-known valid, scaled methods and applied Pearson’s paired linear regression analysis and statistical comparison of the indices with respect to Student’s t-test.
It is discovered that defensive and adaptive potential of the personality of young men depends on the prevailing relations in the dyad “father-son”. With trust-based relations between father and son, the young males are dominated by productive coping strategies of behavior (optimism, active rest, broad friendly contacts and striving for achievements in activity), the personal adaptive potential is growing. Relationship with father rejected by young males reduces their adaptive resource, causes asthenic disorders, and tempts to choose ineffective coping strategies (self-accusation and lack of control). The authors specify reactive formations of young males that are conditioned by a certain scenario of the father's attitude: hostility of fathers strengthens the asthenization of sons, a tendency towards discharging tension and/or passive inaction; inconsistent paternal behavior complicates the difficulties of self-control in sons; autonomy on the part of fathers reduces the moral normality of sons and their search for spiritual support.
About the authors
Galina Gennadievna Semenova-Poliakh
Timiryasov Kazan Innovative University, Kazan
Author for correspondence.
Email: semenovap@ieml.ru
PhD (Psychology), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair “Developmental psychology and psychophysiology”
Russian FederationIldar Masgudovich Yusupov
Timiryasov Kazan Innovative University, Kazan
Email: Knyaz5491@mail.ru
Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor, professor of Chair “Developmental psychology and psychophysiology”
Russian FederationGeorgiy Muratovich Makhmudov
Timiryasov Kazan Innovative University, Kazan
Email: georg_muratovich@mail.ru
psychologist
Russian FederationReferences
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