Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood in Ukraine

291 Pages·2023·4.119 MB·English

by  Oleksiy Chebykin

“This book reveals findings about specific, age-based changes in the emotional domain of
human development that are based on extensive research. The author presents interesting
theoretical approaches and empirical data regarding development of emotional maturity of
adolescents in general and young adults in particular. Given the centrality of Ukraine in
the recent world events and, especially, effects of war on Ukrainian youth, this book has
tremendous potential to be of interest to many researchers, psychologists, educators and other
professionals”.
— Alexander W. Chizhik, Ph.D., Professor of
Educational Psychology
“Oleksiy Chebykin details extensive research into this important topic, considering how
rapidly changing and challenging living conditions impact upon emotional development and
in turn on personality development through childhood and beyond. Presenting theoretical
and empirical data, this book will also inform the design of interventions to support young
people growing up in adverse conditions. Topics examined include positive and negative ten-
dencies in the development of emotional traits; individual characteristics of children’s devel-
opment; the functions of emotions in personality formation; analysis of gender differences
in emotional development; factors that determine emotional maturity; and the prevention of
and interventions for negative emotional manifestations”.
— Alexander M. Yemelyanov, Ph.D., D.Sc.,
Professor of Computer Science, MSCS Director,
College of Business and Computing
“This is an important book that contains a huge amount of empirical data characterizing
the emotional sphere of children, adolescents and young men. It reveals trends reflecting
the specifics of the development of the emotional sphere of young people, highlighting the
dominant factors and personal determinants. Approaches to the psychological support of the
emotional sphere of children in difficult socio-psychological conditions of life is outlined. The
book will be of great interest to psychologists, teachers, educators and those who deal with
this problem”.
— Nataliia Chepeleva, Doctor of Psychology, Professor,
Academician of the NAPS of Ukraine, Deputy Director of the
G.S. Kostyuk Institute of Psychology
“In my opinion this book would be a valuable contribution to the study of this topic and
it’s very timely considering that Ukrainian children and adolescents are under enormous
emotional stress due to the political instability facing the country. It would find readers in
all the countries dealing with the flow of Ukrainian refugees and in the science community
in general”.
— Inna Bedny, Ph.D., Experimental Psychology

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
OF THE EMOTIONAL
SPHERE OF CHILDREN,
ADOLESCENTS AND
EARLY ADULTHOOD IN
UKRAINE
Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adult-
hood in Ukraine examines the factors that influence emotional development of
young people between 4 and 17 years old. It explores the impact on development
of the social and psychological conditions of a child’s upbringing, outlines the
dynamic changes in emotional sphere characteristics during childhood, adoles-
cence and young adulthood, and considers interventions to support emotional
maturity.
Oleksiy Chebykin details extensive research into this important topic, consid-
ering how rapidly changing and challenging living conditions impact on emo-
tional development and in turn on personality development through childhood
and beyond. Presenting theoretical and empirical data, this book will also inform
the design of interventions to support young people growing up in adverse con-
ditions. Topics examined include positive and negative tendencies in the devel-
opment of emotional traits; individual characteristics of children’s development;
the functions of emotions in personality formation; analysis of gender differences
in emotional development; factors that determine emotional maturity; and the
prevention of and interventions for negative emotional manifestations.
Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early
Adulthood in Ukraine will be valuable reading for scholars and students of child
and adolescent psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, psychotherapy
and counseling, and education.
Oleksiy Chebykin, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Academician of the
NAPS of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of the Theory and Methods of
Practical Psychology at the Ushinsky University (Odessa), has over 700 scientific
publications and has authored texts on psychological concepts with emotional
stability problems, emotional maturity, emotional regulation of cognitive activ-
ity and others.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
OF THE EMOTIONAL
SPHERE OF CHILDREN,
ADOLESCENTS AND
EARLY ADULTHOOD IN
UKRAINE
Oleksiy Chebykin
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Summary: “Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood
in Ukraine examines the factors that influence emotional development of young people between 4 and
17 years old. It explores the impact on development of the social and psychological conditions of a child’s
upbringing, outlines the dynamic changes in emotional sphere characteristics during childhood, adolescence
and young adulthood, and considers interventions to support emotional maturity. Oleksiy Chebykin details
extensive research into this important topic, considering how rapidly changing and challenging living
conditions impact upon emotional development and in turn on personality development through childhood
and beyond. Presenting theoretical and empirical data, it will also inform the design of interventions to
support young people growing up in adverse conditions. Topics examined include positive and negative
tendencies in the development of emotional traits; individual characteristics of children’s development; the
functions of emotions in personality formation; analysis of gender differences in emotional development;
factors that determine emotional maturity; and the prevention of and interventions for negative emotional
manifestations. Experimental Study of the Emotional Sphere of Children, Adolescents and Early Adulthood
in Ukraine will be valuable reading for scholars and students of child and adolescent psychology, clinical
psychology, social psychology, psychotherapy and counselling, and education”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022046562 (print) | LCCN 2022046563 (ebook) | ISBN 9781032362458
(paperback) | ISBN 9781032362441 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003330943 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Emotions in children. | Children—Ukraine—Social conditions. |
Child psychology—Ukraine. | Emotions in adolescence. | Teenagers—Ukraine—
Social conditions. | Adolescent psychology—Ukraine.
Classification: LCC BF723.E6 C54 2023 (print) | LCC BF723.E6 (ebook) |
DDC 155.4/12409477—dc23/eng/20221007
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022046562
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ISBN: 9781032362441 (hbk)
ISBN: 9781032362458 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003330943
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
1 The development of emotional characteristics of 4–6-year-
old children in the dependent conditions of life 1
1.1 A nalysis of the conditions for the development of children’s
emotional sphere 2
1.2 D istinctions in the development of the emotional sphere of children 13
1.3 D ifferences in the development of children’s emotional sphere 17
1.4 R elationship of indicators of the emotional sphere in children
brought up in various conditions 32
1.5 T he system of prevention and reduction of negative emotional
manifestations in children and its approbation in educational and
professional training of psychologists 44
1.6 Conclusions 55
2 A study of the emotional development of children and
adolescents 7–17 years old 60
2.1 Functions of emotions in the development of personality 61
2.2 E xternal and internal factors that determine the development of
the emotional sphere 64
2.3 A nalysis of individual data characterizing features of the
development of the emotional sphere of children of different ages
and gender 70
2.4 Dynamics of changes of emotional characteristics in children
depending on age and gender 95
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2.5 Identification of the leading factors in the structure of the
emotional features of a developing personality 118
2.6 Prognostic tendencies in the genesis of the emotional sphere of
children and youth 123
2.7 Conclusions 128
3 Diagnostics of the development of emotional maturity in
adolescence and early adulthood 134
3.1 C larification of the psychological content of emotional maturity of
a person 135
3.2 G eneralization of the main tendencies in the knowledge of
emotional maturity 139
3.3 Factors that determine the formation of emotional maturity 146
3.4 I dentification of the main structural components of emotional maturity 150
3.5 I nvestigation of emotional maturity in adolescence and young
adulthood 156
3.5.1 Analysis of individual indicators that reflect the
characteristics of emotional maturity in the sample 162
3.5.2 Distinctions in the development of emotional maturity
depending on age 179
3.5.3 The relationship between indicators of emotional
maturity and personal characteristics in surveyed subjects,
depending on age 182
3.5.4 Disparities in the values of indicators of emotional
maturity, depending on subjects’ gender 200
3.5.5 Relationships between emotional maturity indicators and
personality traits of the respondents, depending on the gender 203
3.5.6 Main tendencies in the development of emotional
maturity in adolescents and young adults and their types 220
3.6 Conclusions 235
Conclusions 248
Appendix 1 (Chapter 1) 251
Appendix 2 (Chapter 2) 255
Appendix 3 (Chapter 2) 258
Appendix 4 (Chapter 3) 268
Appendix 5 (Chapter 3) 270
Index 275
PREFACE
The knowledge of the features of the emotional sphere of a developing per-
sonality has a long history, which is reflected in psychological scientific schools
of many countries. The relevance of studying the characteristics of emotions,
their emergence, development, manifestation, recognition and changes attracts
the attention of not only scientists, psychologists and practitioners but also other
specialists. This is due to the fact that emotions are integrated with almost all
functions of the psyche and influence in different ways many human activities.
In this aspect, the problem of studying emotions of a developing person for
modern psychology is of particular relevance both theoretically and empirically.
Despite the number of proposed theoretical approaches which are focused on
understanding the patterns of development of the emotional sphere, all of them,
as a rule, offer us only a relative idea of the mechanisms and its specificities that
characterize this process. As for the applied data concerning development of the
emotional sphere of children and young men, they also do not always allow us
to reveal the adequate conditions for its formation, and changes based on the
specifics of its intensity, regarding age and gender specifics.
This book presents relatively holistically supplemented generalized results of
the long-term research of various aspects of the emotional development of chil-
dren and young men (from 4 to 23 years of age of different sexes). In general,
they reveal both theoretical and empirical data characterizing certain tendencies
of differences in the characteristics of the emotional sphere in these age groups.
The basic studies were mainly conducted on children, adolescents and young
men in various Odessa preschools, schools and universities.
Thus, in the first chapter “The development of emotional characteristics of
4–6 years old children depending on the conditions of life”, when studying the
specifics of the emotional development of children, the emphasis is made on
the conditions of their life, that is, upbringing in complete and single-parent