The Study of Awareness of the Family History: Psychological Well-being and Deviant Behavior

This article presents the results of a study on correlation level of psychological wellbeing of the person with the degree of awareness of adolescence of his own family history. The analysis and comparison of existing concepts proposes a new understanding and definition of the phenomenon of family history. Family history is represented as a resource person, the relevance of which is due to occurring socioculture changes. It has been developed and modified by special questionnaire aimed at the study of the level of awareness. In the present study we took 121 people participated. 73 adolescence group of norm, and 48 with deviant behavior. It was found that adolescents knowledgeable in the history of the family history, to maintain contact with the extended family, for which it is studying and maintaining meaningful, characterized by high levels of psychological well-being.

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