1st Edition
Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood in Ukraine
Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood in Ukraine examines the factors that influence emotional development of young people between 4 and 17 years old. It explores the impact on development of the social and psychological conditions of a child’s upbringing, outlines the dynamic changes in emotional sphere characteristics during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, and considers interventions to support emotional maturity.
Oleksiy Chebykin details extensive research into this important topic, considering how rapidly changing and challenging living conditions impact upon emotional development and in turn on personality development through childhood and beyond. Presenting theoretical and empirical data, this book will also inform the design of interventions to support young people growing up in adverse conditions. Topics examined include positive and negative tendencies in the development of emotional traits; individual characteristics of children’s development; the functions of emotions in personality formation; analysis of gender differences in emotional development; factors that determine emotional maturity; and the prevention of and interventions for negative emotional manifestations.
Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood in Ukraine will be valuable reading for scholars and students of child and adolescent psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, psychotherapy and counselling, and education.
Preface
1 The development of emotional characteristics of 4–6-year-old children in the dependent conditions of life
1.1 Analysis of the conditions for the development of children's emotional sphere
1.2 Distinctions in the development of the emotional sphere of children
1.3 Differences in the development of children's emotional sphere
1.4 Relationship of indicators of the emotional sphere in children brought up in various conditions
1.5 The system of prevention and reduction of negative emotional manifestations in children and its approbation in educational and professional training of psychologists
1.6 Conclusions
2 A study of the emotional development of children and adolescents 7–17 years old
2.1 Functions of emotions in the development of personality
2.2 External and internal factors that determine the development of the emotional sphere
2.3 Analysis of individual data characterizing features of the development of the emotional sphere of children of different ages and gender
2.4 Dynamics of changes of emotional characteristics in children depending on age and gender
2.5 Identification of the leading factors in the structure of the emotional features of a developing personality
2.6 Prognostic tendencies in the genesis of the emotional sphere of children and youth
2.7 Conclusions
3 Diagnostics of the development of emotional maturity in adolescence and early adulthood
3.1 Clarification of the psychological content of emotional maturity of a person
3.2 Generalization of the main tendencies in the knowledge of emotional maturity
3.3 Factors that determine the formation of emotional maturity
3.4 Identification of the main structural components of emotional maturity
3.5 Investigation of emotional maturity in adolescence and young adulthood
3.5.1. Analysis of individual indicators that reflect the characteristics of emotional maturity in the sample
3.5.2. Distinctions in the development of emotional maturity depending on age
3.5.3. The relationship between indicators of emotional maturity and personal characteristics in surveyed subjects, depending on age
3.5.4. Disparities in the values of indicators of emotional maturity, depending on subjects' gender
3.5.5. Relationships between emotional maturity indicators and personality traits of the respondents, depending on the gender
3.5.6. Main tendencies in the development of emotional maturity in adolescents and young adults and their types
3.6 Conclusions
4 Conclusion
Appendices
Index
Biography
Oleksiy Chebykin, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Academician of the NAPS of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of the Theory and Methods of Practical Psychology at the Ushinsky University (Odessa), has over 700 scientific publications, and has authored texts on psychological concepts with emotional stability problems, emotional maturity, emotional regulation of cognitive activity and others.
