FEATURES OF EMANSIPATION OF THE STUDENTS FROM THEIR PARENTS

Abstract

The process of emancipation as an emotional-behavioral reaction specific for adolescence, expressed in the desire to free oneself from the care of parents is discused in the article. The specificity of the social situation of students' development is considered. It is expressed in the desire of young people for autonomy from their parents as a manifestation of a developing identity and worldview, while maintaining dependence on the parental family or other social institutions. The reaction of emancipation is considered as a manifestation of crisis processes in the development of a young man's personality, which are found in relations with other people. The following forms of the studied reaction are distinguished: emotional emancipation, manifested in the desire of young people for greater emotional closeness not with their parents, but with a peer or with a representative of the opposite sex; normative emancipation as a desire to reject the norms and values that parents adhere to; behavioral emancipation, which is the desire of a young person to free himself from parental control. The emancipation reaction is found in the attitude of students to the participation of parents in specific areas of their lives in solving various problems, as well as in evaluating their own initiative in maintaining relations with their parents. It was revealed that all students agree with a certain measure of parental involvement in their lives. Most young people tend to assess the active desire of parents to participate in the discussion and solution of their children's problems as excessive, that is, as an invasion of their personal space. The third part of students assesses the parents' activity in solving their problems as insufficient. It was revealed that boys more often than girls tend not to involve their parents in solving their problems, and girls more often show initiative in maintaining relations with their parents. Three types of students' attitudes towards their parents were revealed: students' aspiration for autonomy from their parents, students' aspiration for dependence on parents, and ambivalence in students' relations with their parents. The desire for autonomy is dominant among students: young people see parental initiative as an invasion of personal space and at the same time would not like to increase their own activity in discussing their problems with their parents. The third part of students is characterized by the desire to be dependent on parents, which is expressed in the desire of young men and women to solve their problems with the help of their parents. The least common is ambivalence in the relationship of students with parents: the desire of young people, on the one hand, for autonomy from their parents, and on the other hand, the desire to have closer relations with their parents.