Interconnection between parents’ images and youth’ self-relation
The article is a review of empirical research which describes the reflection of parents’ images in the structure of youth’ self-relation. According to the author, the formation of an individual model of the universe is complex: the knowledge of oneself and the knowledge of the objective world, including the world of things and the world of other people. The family played one of the determining roles in this formation for a long time. The family forms the child’s personality and gives them the first examples of interaction with things and people. The youth are rethought and rebuilt much knowledge about themselves and the world: new ideas about the life practices are faced well-established knowledge, including parents’ images. At this point, much important is the ratio of real and ideal parents’ images. The research consists in reflected of the ratio of ideal and real parents’ images in the structure of youths’ self-relation. The author comes to the conclusion that in the period of youth the ratio of real and ideal parents’ images is importance to the formation of self-relationship. But for male young people are more important parental feelings, attitude to the child. For girls are more important the cognitive and behavioral components of parents’ images, especially mothers. In the period of formation the character for boys is most important emotional support of parents, it gives the young man self-confidence, a positive effect on self-esteem. For girls is most important the search for a role model, building their type of interaction with the world, the mother’s image becomes the prototype of self-actualization.