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Scientists with "minority" views should refrain from going public with them
February 06, 2004Unfortunately a lot of parents fail to understand their children when they are growing adult. What are the current teenagers' concerns? What events make them happy, upset or even lead to depression? How do life stresses impact the children? The Moscow psychologists have carried out the research among Russian and Ukrainian schoolchildren in attempt to find answers to these questions.
It is evident not only for psychologists that negative events taking place in teenagers' life can lead to depression fraught with unexpected consequences for young hearts. For example, the specialists estimate that the loss of a parent at the age less then 17 increases the risk of at least five mental disorders development. What is the teenagers' attitude towards other events, be they positive or negative?
In search for the answer, Andrey Podolsky (Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University) together with the colleagues from the All-Russian State Taxation Academy (Ministry for Taxes and Duties of the Russian Federation) elaborated the list of vitally important events in the life of teenagers. The researchers requested 400 Russian and Ukrainian teenagers (their age varying from 11 to 17) to make a list of events which happened to them and were most important from their point of view. Then the researchers chose 42 variants recurring most frequently. Nearly half of them coincided with the examples from the "Life Event Record" list elaborated by Western psychologists, although the list had been based on the inquiry of adults, not children.
All the events enumerated in the list refer to the four main areas that worry teenagers: family, relations with coevals, personal life, school and out-of-school activity.
The second research carried out by Russian psychologists requested 1200 Russian and Ukrainian schoolchildren to evaluate how certain events influenced or could have influenced their life. The psychologists received interesting results. The most positive assessments in the teenager' opinion belong to the event "Improved financial status of the family", and the most negative ones were applied to "The parent's death" and "The parent's serious illness that requires hospitalization". The teenagers get happy with the following events: "Less quarrels with the parents" and "Improved relations with coevals", and they are upset by the opposite events. Besides, high positive assessments were given to "Father or mother got the job", "Purchase of real estate" and "Trip abroad", and high negative grades were received by "Worsened financial status of the family", "Divorce of the parents" and "Father's remarriage".
The research findings show that the evaluation by the schoolchildren of various events have mainly coincided with the common judgements on them. It is no wonder that the family and relations with the parents remain very important for teenagers. Unexpectedly, the highest level of teenagers' depression is caused by the event "Worsened relations with coevals". The young boys were more oppressed by "Expulsion from school", the girls were upset by "Impossibility to participate in the desired out-of-school activity", "Dismissal of father or mother" and were rejoiced with "Changes in father's employment which require his lengthy absence from home".
Probably, we shall better understand the children now.
Informnauka (Informscience) Agency
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