Social and psychological characteristics of children from foster families
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https://doi.org/10.33910/2687-0223-2025-7-3-179-188Keywords:
orphaned children, children left without parental care, foster family, socio-psychological features, communication abilities, social intelligence, emotional intelligence, social identityAbstract
This article presents part of the findings from the project ‘Post- Foster Family: Psychological Features and Support Model’. The project identified the following socio-psychological characteristics of children from foster families: emotional and social intelligence, communicative abilities, and social identity.
The sample included 120 participants aged 11–17: 60 children from foster families (the main group), and 60 children from intact biological families (the comparison group). Instruments used were the Emotional Intelligence Test (N. Hall), the Test of Social Intelligence (J. Guilford and M. Sullivan), the Communicative and Organizational Inclinations Questionnaire (KOS; V. V. Sinyavsky and B. A. Fedorishin), and the Twenty Statements Test (M. Kuhn, T. McPartland, modified by T. V. Rumyantseva). The hypothesis was tested using the Mann-Whitney U test, Fisher’s angular transformation, and regression analysis.
Results indicated that children from foster families had difficulties recognizing their own and other people’s emotions, managing their own emotions, and influencing the emotional states of others. For all participants from foster families, voluntary control over emotions presented the greatest difficulty. They also showed difficulties in understanding and predicting other people’s behavior, which could complicate relationships and hinder social adaptation and integration. Additionally, children from foster families exhibited lower communicative skills and struggled to understand the diversity of their own social roles.
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