«Significant Others» in life stories of group care alumnus

Radina N.K.
Doctor of Political Science, PhD in Psychology, professor at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8336-1044
e-mail: rasv@yandex.ru

Pavlycheva T.N.
Senior lecturer at the Psychology chair of Nizhegorodsky Institute of Management and Business, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

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Following the major concept of L. S. Vygotsky cultural4historical concept of the significant adult (personified mediator of child mental development) we have analyzed emotional connections of group care alumnus in the middle and older age. Results of research prove that spontaneous compensation of emotional problems of child-parental relations of social orphans is unattainable.

Keywords: social deprivation, re-socialization, closed institution, «significant other», »significant adult»

Column: Experimental Research

For Reference

Radina N.K., Pavlycheva T.N. «Significant Others» in life stories of group care alumnus. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2010. Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 124–135. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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