THE SURVEY OF FEATURES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH DIFFERENT LEVEL OF TRUST IN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theoretical substantiation and empirical examination of the problem of trust and socio-psychological characteristics of adolescents (students). It was found that the level of empathy and trust of the individual and interpersonal relationships of young people are interrelated and characterized by a common psychological feature: the strength of empathy in the emotional sphere of personality and the ratio of levels of interpersonal relationships. Due to the peculiarities of empathy and trusting communication, young people can evaluate the people around them, establish a certain value of the relationship, acquired during some period of time. A radical change in the social situation of development causes the intensification of programs for finding personal self-realization ways, making responsible decisions, restructuring the system of relations with others. Social norms and rules, learned in previous age periods, form the basis for the formation of their own system of views on the realities of coexistence of people in society. Based on the results of the diagnosis, the vast majority of people (85.7%) with a low level of trust in interpersonal relationships were identified, in which such sociopsychological characteristics as types of attitudes towards others and the level of empathic abilities were studied. The results of empirical research indicate the dependence of the personality in deciding whether or not to trust the opinion of others, the constant search for confirmation of the correctness of their choice, insecurity in their own abilities. Statistical analysis of the obtained results revealed some significant differences in styles (types) of interpersonal relationships, levels of development of empathic abilities of students with a low level of trust. The obtained results became a psychological basis for the development of socio-psychological training as an effective means of increasing the level of students’trust in early adolescence because it is trust that performs socio-psychological functions of cognition, interactivity, adaptation, integration, orientation, regulation, communication, forecasting, development, self-expression and self-improvement.