Social Adaptation And A Person's Ego-Identity

The importance of the studied problem is stipulated on the one hand by socio-cultural and personal context on the other hand by methodological difficulties in matching concepts of identity and social adaptation. The article is directed towards the empirical research description of interrelation between ego-identity and social adaptation of contemporary Russian teenagers. The major method in the study of this problem is the diagnostic static method that allows one to reveal the availability of interrelations between ego-identity and social adaptation of a person. Following the results of the conducted empirical research the hypothesis which was put forward about the interrelation between teenagers' personal identity and social adaptation was confirmed partially. A sufficient level of correlation was not found in the indicators of social and psychological adaptation with the exception of the pair "personal identity - disadaptation" and majority of teenagers showed a lack of formation of an achieved identity that testifies to the absence of strong goals, values in the transitional period. The materials of the article can be useful for a psychologist's corrective, educational activity as well as consulting teenagers and their parents and designing training programs and corrective programs.