Features of views of the father of girls aged 15–17

Abstract

The article analyses attitude to the father of 15–17 year old girls. The hypothesis assumes a correlation of stable individual characteristics, conditions of socialization and views of the father. The study involved 224 young women who grew up in a family, and 45 young women who grew up in children’s homes at the age of 15–17. The author used the method of color metaphors by I.L. Solomin to identify respondents – attitudes to the concepts of the family sphere and to compose psychosemantic characteristics of the concept «my father» for subgroups differing in extraversion, intelligence, locus of control and conditions of education. It is discovered that the girls who were brought up in families associate the concept with the first by emotional value colour. Their concept of «my father» together with the factor of internality is emotionally positive, semantically developed, available for understanding and has a temporal orientation to the future that will direct them to start their own families. As for the girls who were brought up in children’s homes, their concept is combined with the eighth negative by emotional value colour, semantically developed and has a temporal orientation to the past that diagnoses their need for psychological aid.