Child and adolescent stress: continuity of research

The current problem of child and adolescent stress, the research logic of which in the laboratory of psychology of person development in normal and post-traumatic states, Institute of Psychology RAS, is traced in connection with the analysis of the works of L.I. Antsyferova, is considered. The main hypotheses of the study: on the prevalence of coping strategies Anxiety, Ignoring, Self-Blame, Withdrawal and Not Coping in children and adolescents with high stress levels and that the features of coping with difficulties depend on the level of stress experienced and the type of difficult situation associated with a certain life value, are tested on different samples of children aged 12 to 16 years (N = 118), equated by gender. The following methods are used: the Scale of Perceived Stress for Children, PSS-C (B. White, adapted by N.E. Kharlamenkova et al.); The Adolescent Coping Scale (E. Frydenberg, R. Lewis, adapted by T.L. Kryukova), the Color Test of Relationships (adapted by E.F. Bazhin and A.M. Etkind). The results of the study confirm the existence of a connection between unproductive coping strategies and a high level of stress in children and adolescents. Identified difficult life situations — an evaluative situation, abandonment, an uncertain situation, an extreme situation, a situation of helplessness, are correlated with the threat of losing the value associated with a specific situation — the values of Knowledge, Love and Attachment, Safeness, Life and Health, and Faith in People.