The role of urban environment perception in adolescents’ adjustment

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Abstract

The article deals with investigation of the role of urban environment in adolescents’ adjustment. It analyses the link between adolescents’ adjustment abilities and the quality of their perception of urban environment. It is shown that the most attractive urban objects for adolescents are places with high intensity of social contacts, dynamically changing but providing the sense of security that directly affects an adolescent’s emotional comfort. Characteristics of perception of urban environment objects in adolescents are linked with the level of their social adjustment and emotional comfort.

General Information

Keywords: adolescence, adjustment, urban environment, representations of a city, semantic space

Journal rubric: Social Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Pryazhnikova E.Y., Golub O. The role of urban environment perception in adolescents’ adjustment [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovanie psyedu.ru [Psychological Science and Education psyedu.ru], 2012. Vol. 4, no. 4 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Elena Y. Pryazhnikova, Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Psychology, Head of the laboratory “Psychological foundations of professional counseling”, Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), Moscow, Russia, e-mail: e-pryazhnikiva@yandex.ru

O. Golub, PhD in Psychology, Ph.D in Psychology, assistant professor at the Psychology chair of the Natural sciences faculty of the Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia

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