SELF-IMAGE IN CHILDREN OF DIVORCED PARENTS
Journal Title: International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education (IJCRSEE) - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
The family and its important role in the development of the child is the inspiration for many types of research that have the intention to emphasize certain aspects of family life and the consequences of the family relations in the development of the children. The issue of this research is to fnd out if there is a connection between the conflict in the family, the divorce of the parents and self-concept in the children of early school age. The research is conducted on 30 children of single-parent families. The children of these single-parent families are children who have lived in families with conflicts and they have been direct or indirect participants in the conflict of the divorced parents. In the process of research, we applied projective techniques: Machover which consists of drawing a person’s fgure, as well as a drawing a house and a tree-HTP (House-Tree-Person).The results are obtained through qualitative analysis and interpretation of each drawing particularly. During the investigation the relation between the variables, it is confrmed that there is a considerable connection between the conflict in the family, the divorce of the parents and the self-concept in children. It is confrmed, during the process that the children of divorced parents from negative self-concept. In children of singleparent families it is indicated that this group of children in relation to the psychological picture for themselves presented the following characteristics: lowered EGO, mechanisms for defense, feeling of insecurity, low selfconfdence, aggressiveness, great virility, and caution.
Authors and Affiliations
Slagjana Angjelkoska, MSc, Gordana Stankovska, Dr. , Dimitar Dimitrovski, MSc
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