Satisfaction With Relationships, Interactions, and the Need for Belonging Between Adolescents and Their Parents in the Context of Digitalization

Aim. The purpose of the study is to study the satisfaction of adolescents with relationships and the need for belonging with parents in large families. Methodology. The study examined predictors and mitigating correlations of relationship satisfaction and depressive symptoms of adolescents' need for belonging with their parents. adolescents. Mini-essays on the topic ‘Difficulties of interaction with parents’ and the questionnaire ‘My relations with parents’ were used Results. Adolescents identified the following characteristics of child-parent interaction in their families: undemanding parents due to lack of time, gentleness, absence of harsh punishments, especially on the part of mothers, as well as applied on the part of parents, emotional closeness to mothers, acceptance of adolescents' personal qualities, cooperation in interaction with mothers. Adolescents give a positive assessment of the authority of parents, but express dissatisfaction with the relationship with them, unwillingness to obey their demands, disobedience, going to the Internet and spending free time in it. Research implications. The results of the obtained research can become the basis for further study of child-parent interaction between adolescents and parents, for the development of strategies to provide socio-psychological assistance to families psychologists, narrow specialists, can help to overcome the difficulties of interaction between parents and adolescents in modern conditions of digitalization.