The study of bodily socialization of adolescents, whose families are experiencing divorce ¹⁴⁰³

The article presents the results of a study of the sociogenesis of corporeality adolescents whose parents are in high conflict relationships and experiencing divorce. The main group consisted of families that have undergone the examination of parent-child relations in the Centre for forensic examinations and studies, the control group – families with prosperous spousal relationship (a total of 28 parents and 16 adolescents aged 13-15 years). To assess qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the bodily sphere of the adolescents used the methodology of "the Volume and structure intercepting background", "Scale of assessment of skin" and test "body Shape", especially the parent-child relationship was assessed using questionnaires "the Behavior and attitudes of parents of adolescents to them." Statistically significant intergroup differences (U-Mann–Whitney test) on a number of parameters that characterize the bodily socialization of adolescents. Adolescents from families undergoing divorce, revealed violations of individual (lability of borders) and social (reflection, metaphoric) levels of physicality in the type of retardation.

Keywords: adolescence, the type of parental upbringing, the divorce of parents, ontogenesis of corporality, bodily socialization sphere, retardation.

Column: Juvenile Legal Psychology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2015050302