The Relationship of Somatization with the Socio-Psychological Characteristics of Personality among Adolescents

In modern science studying humans, there are more noticeable trends towards the integration of different spheres of knowledge in one holistic picture describing psychological phenomena. Considering the complexity and systemic nature of psychosomatic disorders, a biopsychosocial approach to explaining their nature is appropriate and justified. The authors substantiate the expediency of studying the connection between the phenomena of "socio-psychological characteristics of personality" and "psychosomatic disorder", since there are common points in their nature, namely the integration of social and psychological factors and the presence of contradiction, conflict in development. The paper shows that the somatization of schoolchildren is associated with an unproductively resolved contradiction between the needs for recognition and success and the difficulties of achieving it with such socio-psychological qualities as poor performance, volitional control and emotional reactivity, which manifests itself in emotionally negative experiences and somatoform disorders as a way of manifesting given voltage.