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Developmental approach to the study of adolescent personal autonomy

Developmental approach to the study of adolescent personal autonomy

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Recieved: 11/28/2014

Accepted: 12/01/2014

p.: 74-85

DOI: 10.11621/npj.2014.0108

Keywords: orienting image; autonomy; adolescence; developmental approach; self-determination; autonomy; child-parent relations; emotional autonomy; cognitive autonomy; value autonomy; behavioral autonomy; social situation of development

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Poskrebysheva, Natalia N. , Karabanova, O.A. . Developmental approach to the study of adolescent personal autonomy. // National Psychological Journal 2014. 1. p.74-85. doi: 10.11621/npj.2014.0108

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Poskrebysheva, Natalia N. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Karabanova, O.A. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract

This paper discusses diverse theoretical approaches to the study of adolescent personal autonomy, including psychoanalytic approach (A. Freud, M. Mahler, P. Blos), attachment theory (J. Bowlby, Ainsworth, M. P. Crittenden), self-determination theory (E. Deci and R. Ryan), activity approach (A.N. Leontiev, D.A. Leontiev) and developmental approach (El’konin, T.V. Dragunova, L.I. Bozhovich, G.A. Zuckerman, G.V. Burmenskaya). Analysis of the adolescent personal autonomy has demonstrated the diversity of theoretical approaches and empirical research to explain the phenomenology, mechanisms and conditions of developing the complex personality constructs. The study of modern foreign and Russian research has allowed to analyze the main ways of separating from parents and the role of social context in shaping adolescent autonomy.

The paper describes the structure of adolescent personal autonomy construct. During its operationalization, the necessity of including the moral autonomy as part of the value autonomy in the four-tier personal autonomy is emphasized. The significance of parent-child relationship for developing adolescent personal autonomy is outlined. On the one hand, autonomy is represented as a characteristic of the relationship, i.e. social background, and on the other hand, it is the I-image used by a teenager as pattern in relationships with adults and peers. The paper highlights the benefits of the developmental approach in the research of the personal autonomy and presents how to use the concept of social situation development. The developmental approach that considers the social situation of development as a hierarchy of social contexts that determine the vector and development of the key age-dependent features, opens the opportunity of studying the orienting activity in the system of social and interpersonal relations in the development of personal autonomy.

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Poskrebysheva, Natalia N. , Karabanova, O.A. . Developmental approach to the study of adolescent personal autonomy. // National Psychological Journal 2014. 1. p.74-85. doi: 10.11621/npj.2014.0108

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