The level of neuroticism in young people from crushed and full families

Abstract

Empirical in its character paper presents issues concerning the development and growth of teenagers from broken families. This is a topical problem in Polish reality, which results from various psychosocial and economic determinants of the present time. The first part of the paper illustrates a contemporary picture of a Polish family and describes and explains the influence of a family being an environment of development and functioning for a young human being. The period of adolescence was characterized as a special stage in every person’s life considerably influence functioning and psychological adaptation of an individual. The last part of the paper presents disintegration of marital tie as a reason of divorce. It demonstrates the description of divorce as a process of a legal and psychosocial character. Divorce is also seen here as a phenomenon for a fatherhood crisis, which is becoming more and more common as well as a negative sign of the present times. Personal research methodology (Big Five Test) was presented in the next part of the work. The ending of the paper shows the results of the conducted empirical research (level of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness) and the conclusions of a cognitive, practical and prophylactic character – the use of which may counteract the negative effects of teenagers’ growing up in broken family.