Teenagers’ Sex and Age Specifics of Family Identity

Abstract

The article presents the data of the Phd research of teenagers family identity. Hypothesis of teenagers’ sex and age specifics of family identity is verified with a help of authorial questionnaire and described. The sample includes 337 12–17 years old teenagers, living in Ramenskoye, Moscow region. Highly verified results were received about the groups of young (12–14 years old) and older (15–17 years old) teenagers. It was established that in the young teen years teenagers feel more acceptance from their families, value it more and are ready to take part in the families’ deals. These results help to understand teenager’s family identity dynamics. There were not verified distinguishes between boys and girls in such parameters as acceptance from the family, it’s value and readiness to take part in the families’ deals, researching with a help of authorial questionnaire. According to the data research authors believe that the boys’ and girls’ results can be correlated with the smoothing of gender roles in modern society, including family roles. Also it can me related to the specifics of authorial questionnaire, that is researching not a family idea but another subjective reality concerning to the family, that has its specifics connected to the age of teenagers, but not to his sex.

Keywords

• family psychology
• teenager’s family identity
• methods of family identity research
• questionnaire of family identity
• teenagers’ ideas of the family
• acceptance of the family
• value of the family