Емпіричне дослідження дезадаптивних взаємостосунків матері і дитини старшого шкільного віку в сім’ї після розлучення

The aim of our research is to show the results of empirical study of maladaptive relationships between a mother and a senior child in a family after divorce. Methods of the research. The following theoretical methods of the research were used to solve the tasks formulated in the article: a categorical method, structural and functional methods, the methods of the analysis, systematization, modeling and generalization. The experimental method was the method of organizing empirical research. The results of the research. According to the results of our experimental research, we have defined the concept of “adaptive situation” as a system of external preconditions for the subject, who motivates, facilitates and mediates the person’s attitude to life, his/her vital energy, activity, under which the main conditions of the external adaptive situation for the subject means: 1. The external adaptive position in relations to the subject is perceived in spatial and temporal terms as some external location in accordance with the paradigm of space and temporal boundaries. 2. Purely in temporal terms as a warning of maladaptive, destructive and aggressive actions of the subject. 3. In functional and paradigmatic terms we have a significant independence from the space of the corresponding prerequisites or conditions of the individual at the time of manifestation of actions and different types of the activities. Conclusions. We proved that the reality of what is happening in the world around them is completely denied by the child. Usually, the mother spends a lot of time, energy, emotions and feelings on establishing close relationships with the child, so it is quite difficult for a child and a mother to immediately come to terms with the divorce of their parents. At this stage, the activity of protective mechanisms in the child’s psyche is actualized: rationalization (“finally everything happened”, “sooner or later it would have happened anyway”), devaluation of family relationships (“actually the marriage was terrible”, “my husband is absolute worthlessness”), denial of positive relationships (“nothing happened, so what, a divorce”, “everything will be fine anyway”).