Specifics of the Social Mentality of Adopted Parents as a Social Group | South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences
Specifics of the Social Mentality of Adopted Parents as a Social Group
Vol. 21 (2020) No. 3, Social Psychology
Vol. 21 (2020) No. 3
Social Psychology

Specifics of the Social Mentality of Adopted Parents as a Social Group

Aldasheva A.A.
Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences
ORCID ID 0000-0003-3768-9887
Pervacheva O.A.
Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences
ORCID ID 0000-0002-3265-4020
PDF (Russian)
https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-21-3-112-124
https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-21-3-112-124

How to Cite Array

Aldasheva A.A., Pervacheva O.A. (2020) Specifics of the Social Mentality of Adopted Parents as a Social Group. South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences, 21 (3), pp. 112-124. DOI: 10.31429/26190567-21-3-112-124 (In Russian)
Submission Date 2020-08-21
Accepted Date 2020-09-12
Published Date 2021-03-31

Copyright (c) 2020 Айгуль Абдулхаевна Алдашева, Ольга Александровна Первачёва

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The article is part of a series of papers dedicated to the study of foster  parents’ value chain as the main regulator of child-parent relationships. The relevance of the study is linked to the need to study the outlook of the adoptive parents as the basis for the spiritual and moral upbringing of the child, which transmits the values, traditions and ways of behavior of the people.  The analysis of modern research has shown the special role of the value and meaning orientations of foster parents in the development of the institution of foster families, on the one hand, and insufficient empirical evidence on the other. The aim of the authors was to study the particularities of the mentality of adoptive / foster parents as a special social group, offering the State their services for the upbringing of orphaned children. The hypotheses of the study were that: 1) the basic identity orientation of the foster parents is relationship values; 2) the core of the structure of the foster parents’ social perceptions of the spiritual and moral sphere is filled with affective-sensual characteristics, such as love and affection. The methodological base of the research became “Unfinished proposals”, “Method of free association” and the questionnaire “Spiritual and moral upbringing”. 66  foster parents (average age M=49, 60±10.00 years) and 80 blood parents (average age M=47±4) years participated in the study. The theoretical basis of the study was the theory of social representations (S. Moscovichi) and “Psychological image of the people” (the concept of E.N. Reznikov). Quantitative and qualitative analyses showed the dominant value of relationships in the mentality of foster parents and weak expression of moral and psychological values of the affective-sensual sphere. The spiritual and moral sphere in the everyday consciousness of both foster and blood parents, is expressed by religious values and linked to the belief in God, that, according to E.N. Reznikov, forms the basis of the Russian mentality.

Keywords

social representations, spiritual and moral education, basic identity orientation, mentality, adopted parent, adoptive child

Acknowledgements

The research was carried out through the financial support of the state assignment No 0159-2020-0001.

References

  1. Aldasheva, A. A., Zelenova, M. Ye. (2017). Professional'nyy mentalitet priyemnykh roditeley kak faktor uspeshnosti zameshchayushchey sem'i [Professional Mentality of Foster Parents as a Success Factor of the Foster Family]. Vestnik Universiteta Rossiyskoy akademii obrazovaniya [Bulletin of the University of the Russian Academy of Education], 5, 23-29.
  2. Aldasheva, A. A., Zelenova, M. Ye., Sivash, O. N. (2019). Tsennostno-identifikatsionnaya napravlennost' i osobennosti mentaliteta priyemnykh roditeley [The Value-Identification Orientation of Professional Adoptive Parents with Different Numbers of Orphans]. Yuzhno-rossiyskiy zhurnal sotsial'nykh nauk [South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences], 20(3), 153-166.
  3. Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoy statistiki. Ofitsial'nyy sayt [Federal State Statistics Service. Official Site]. Retrieved from https://www.gks.ru/folder/13807?print=1
  4. Makarenko, A. S. (1988). O vospitanii [About Education]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo politicheskoy literatury.
  5. Markina, O. A. (2019). Motivatsiya i roditel'skiye ustanovki k usynovlennomu rebenku u zhenshchin [Motivation and Parenting Attitudes Towards the Adopted Child Among Women] (Candidate Dissertation) Krasnodar.
  6. Mikhina, Ye. M. (Comp.) (1995). Istoriya mental'nostey i istoricheskaya antropologiya: Zarubezhnyye issledovaniya v obzorakh i referatakh [The History of Mentalities and Historical Anthropology: Foreign Studies in Reviews and Abstracts]. Moscow: RGGU.
  7. Ministerstvo prosveshcheniya Rossiyskoy Federatsii. Ofitsial'nyy sayt [Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. Official Site]. Retrieved from https://edu.gov.ru
  8. Moskovichi, S. (1995). Sotsial'nyye predstavleniya: istoricheskiy vzglyad [Social Representations: A Historical View]. Psikhologicheskiy zhurnal [Psychological Journal], 16(2), 3–14.
  9. Mukhamedrakhimov, R. Zh. (2001). Mat' i mladenets: Psikhologicheskoye vzaimodeystviye [Mother and Baby: Psychological Interaction]. SPb.: Izdatel'stvo S.-Peterb. un-ta.
  10. Mukhamedrakhimov, R. Zh. (2018). Interv'yu "Initsiativam rebenka vsegda nuzhno sledovat', oni ne dolzhny ostavat'sya bez vnimaniya" [Interview "The Child's Initiatives Should Always be Followed, They Should not be Ignored"]. Sovremennoye doshkol'noye obrazovaniye [Modern Preschool Education], 3, 47–53.
  11. Oslon, V. N. (2015). Organizatsionnaya model' psikhosotsial'nogo soprovozhdeniya zameshchayushchey sem'I [The Organizational Model of Psychosocial Support of Substitute Families]. Psikhologicheskaya nauka i obrazovaniye [Psychological Science and Education], 7(2), 1–13.
  12. Pleteneva, M. V., Mukhamedrakhimov, R. Zh. (2013). Osobennosti vzaimodeystviya detey rannego vozrasta s roditelyami v zameshchayushchikh sem'yakh [Interaction between Infants and Parents in Substitute Families]. Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta [Bulletin of Saint Petersburg University], 12(3), 22–25.
  13. Popova, Ye. A. (2010). Ponyatiye professional'nogo mentaliteta v nauchnoy literature [The Concept of Professional Mentality in Scientific Literature]. Kazanskiy pedagogicheskiy zhurnal [Kazan Pedagogical Journal], 2(80), 47–55.
  14. Rateau, P., Moliner, P., Guimelli, C., Abric, J. C. (2012). Social Representation Theory. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292251059_Social_representation_theory
  15. Reznikov, Ye. N. (2014). Psikhologicheskiy oblik russkikh: (na materiale issledovaniya zhiteley Kostromskoy oblasti) [Psychological Image of the Russians: (On the Study of Kostroma Region Inhabitants)]. Moscow: Institut psikhologii RAN.
  16. Semeynyy kodeks Rossiyskoy Federatsii ot 29 dekabrya 1995 g. N 223-FZ (red. ot 06.02.2020) po sostoyaniyu na 3.09.2020 [Family Code of the Russian Federation of 29 December 1995. N 223-FZ (Rev. dated 06 February 2020) as of 3 September 2020]. Retrieved from consultantplus.ru
  17. Shneyder, L. B. (2019). Semeynoye konsul'tirovaniye. Molodaya sem'ya i rebenok doshkol'nik [Family Counseling. A Young Family and a Preschool Child]. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Yurayt.
  18. Slipp, K. (2017). The Image of a Child and the Reggio Emilia Philosophy. University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://www.reggiochildren.it/en/reggio-emilia-approach/
  19. Volodina, L. O. (2010). Dukhovno-nravstvennyye tsennosti vospitaniya v russkoy sem'ye: natsional'nyy opyt i regional'nyye osobennosti [Spiritual and Moral Values of Upbringing in the Russian Family: National Experience and Regional Peculiarities]. Vologda: VGPU
  20. Yurevich, A. V. (2013). Strukturnyye elementy natsional'nogo mentaliteta [The Structural Elements of National Mentality]. Psikhologicheskiye issledovaniya [Psikhologicheskie Issledovaniya], 6(29), 12.
  21. Zavalova, N. N, Lomov, B. F, Ponomarenko, V. A. (1986). Obraz v sisteme psikhicheskoy regulyatsii deyatel'nosti [Image in the Mental Regulation System]. Ripol Klassik.