This article presents the results of a pilot study of the psychological state of adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic. It analyses the data on the general emotional background, subjective feeling of social isolation and a tendency to deviant forms of behaviour in subjects aged 12–15. The authors test the hypothesis that in families successfully coping with the stress of the pandemic, adolescents have good indicators of socio-psychological adaptation. Residents of Moscow City and Moscow Region (parents and adolescents) were selected to participate in the study. This Russian region has been a zone of greatest risk of coronavirus infection and of unprecedented measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. The study was conducted in December 2020 — January 2021, in the second wave of distance education, just before the removal of major restrictions. Since the pandemic aff ects the emotional state, intensifying negative experiences, and the associated restrictive measures provoke deprivation syndromes, the data from the parent survey were supplemented with information about the subjective feelings of emotional and social well-being/not well-being of adolescents. To do this, we used the “Scale of subjective feeling of loneliness” and the Russian version of the PANAS method. Taking into account the theoretical opinion that a long stay in a pandemic causes deviation in adolescent behaviour, a diagnosis of a tendency to deviant behavior was proposed. It is shown that, depending on the satisfaction of parents with their ways of coping with diffi culties of the pandemic, adolescents are characterised by positive tendencies of adaptation, i.e. the presence of positive emotional experiences, an actualised need for communication, the absence of deviant behaviour models. Occasional deviations are explained by the tension in the situation of uncertainty itself and its novelty. The lack of family and individual experience of coping with such situations determines individual disturbances in activity and behaviour. The data obtained make it possible to continue research in the direction of studying the determination of adolescents in adapting to diffi cult situations by family factors: the economic and socio-cultural status of the parents, the fi nancial situation of the family, its completeness, the specifics of conjugal coping and others.
adaptation, coping, adolescents, family, pandemic, self-isolation, deviant behaviour
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Egorov Ilya
Academic Degree: Candidate of Sciences
* in Psychological Sciences;
Academic Rank: Associate Professor;
Place of work: Moscow City University 4; 2nd Sel'skokhoziaistvennyi proezd, Moscow, 129226, Russian Federation;
Post: Associate Professor;
ORCID: 0000-0002-7302-5335;
Email: egorov_cpti@mail.ru.
*According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, the degree of Candidate of Sciences (Cand.Sc.) belongs to ISCED level 8 — "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar.
Mart'yanova Galina
Academic Degree: Candidate of Sciences
* in Psychological Sciences;
Academic Rank: Associate Professor;
Place of work: Moscow City University; 4/1, Vtoroi Sel’skokhoziaistvennyi proezd, Moscow 129226, Russian Federation;
Post: associate professor;
ORCID: 0000-0003-4841-5355;
Email: g.martyanova@mail.ru.
*According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, the degree of Candidate of Sciences (Cand.Sc.) belongs to ISCED level 8 — "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar.