Psychological Research of Perception Features of a Parental Position and Self-relation in Different Cultures

The Self is a hypothetical construct that generates self-identity necessary to derive the essence of the person, for the existence of “I”. The formation of the self-attitude in adolescence is greatly influenced by the style of parenting. Each specific type of parenting has its consequences (Rice, 2000). Basic and the main function of the family is that it gives conditions for personal development, self-determination, for the acquisition of integrity and identity. The relation to the self is the basis of construction of the attitude towards other people and is one of the most actual cross-cultural aspects.The culture is the set of behavior models which person acquires in the process of a growth and acceptance of self-cultural role (Lurie, 2005). Novelty of work is caused by the lack of experimental data in the field of self-relation and its interrelation perception of a parental position in different cultures. In the present study following methods were used: 1) method of “Self-attitude” of Pantileeva -“MIS”; 2) Technique “Teenagers about parents” (Wasserman, Gorkova, Romitsyna - ADOR), 3) Technique “The child parental relations of teenagers” (DROP). Scales named as “Cooperation, democratism, empathy, and acceptance” - all these factors are on one pole and positively influence to the subjects. Because these factors are positive and closely connected with each other, they are more suitable and desirable for young men in respect of the self-relation and stabilizing the relations with their parents (rs≥0,5; p ≤0,01).As a results of the study the features of parental education perception, the self-relation in various cultures showed that in general young men possess rather positive attitude towards themselves, self-confidence and safe idea according to perception of people around. Thus, the self-relation scale has significant differences among two cultures, and that character of the self-relation is caused by features perception of a parental position.