Psychological Safety of the Educational Environment from the Perspective of Parents of Elementary School Children

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the characteristics of the assessment by parents of elementary school children of the psychological safety of the educational environment of elementary school, namely: reference; satisfaction with the educational environment; and protection from various psychological violence in interactions in the educational environment. Analysis of foreign and domestic publications allows us to state that the problem is not well studied, has high relevance in the context of timely identification of psychological threats and risks for the favorable personal development of elementary school children and the preservation of children's psychological health, as well as ensuring the subjective position of parents in the educational environment of elementary school and assessing its quality. The study involved 625 parents of elementary school children whose children study in schools of various types from the first to the fourth grade. Empirical data were collected by the method of cross-sections. The diagnostic tool was a questionnaire for parents of I. A. Baeva "Psychological safety of the educational environment of the school" in addition we added the section "protection", which allowed us to study the protection of parents of elementary school children in contacts with each other. It was established that a significant part of parents of elementary school children do not have a positive attitude to the educational environment throughout the entire education of children in elementary school (31% to 45%). The integral satisfaction of parents with the educational environment of elementary school and protection in it correspond to the average level and have negative dynamics from the first to the fourth grade. Parents of elementary school children experience the least protection in contacts with each other (the prevailing level is "below average"). The lowest parental satisfaction was recorded in the environmental characteristic "accounting for personal problems and difficulties". In general, the psychological safety of the educational environment of elementary school from the point of view of most parents of students is not high. The results of the study confirm the need not only to improve the quality of the educational environment of elementary school, but also to conduct special psychological and pedagogical work with parents of elementary school children to develop their psychological culture and effective communication skills, further study of significant psychological risks in the interaction of parents of elementary school children.