CHARACTERISTIC POSITIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN ATTITUDE TO CHILDREN OF PRESCHOOL AGE

• Оксана Іванівна Косарєва

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Abstract.This article is about the results of 7-years emperical experiment on the differences of the attitude of men and women about the preschool children,  as well as the results of parental - children cooperation. In order to valuate the particularities of parental - children cooperation the method  «Parent - child cooperation» by I. Markovska was implemented. This method allows to investigate the following parameters of parental - children cooperation: demanding, strictness, control, emotional closeness, acceptance, cooperation, anxiety, consistency, confrontation, satisfaction.

In order to assess the degree and modality of mother and father significance for each child, a reduced version of the “Family Relationship Test” by D. Anthony and E. Ben. was implemented.  The technique is projective and allows to determine the attitude  of the child to family members, qualitatively and quantitatively evaluate the feelings that the child is feeling about them.

So, the majority of men are characterized by positions in relationships with children, such as demanding, controlling the behavior of the child and emotional distance in dealing with the child; mothers are more likely to have anxiety than a baby; they are characterized by less consistency, instability in relationships with children.

The results of the Family Attitude Test show that the majority of children have positive feelings about both parents.

However, the percentage of children who have an ambivalent attitude toward their father exceeds the number of children who show ambivalent feelings about the mother.

If the attitude that the child receives from the mother is predominantly positive, the child's perception of the father's attitude is less favorable: along with the positive, there is an ambivalent perception of the feelings addressed to the child by the parent. Under these conditions, children who adopt a father's positive feelings toward themselves are statistically less compared to their mother's similar attitudes, but significantly more children who adopt an ambivalent attitude toward their father compared to their mother's similar attitudes.

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