Perception of the family as a factor of emotional well-being of adolescents

Adolescence years are sensitive for the development of valuable attitude towards the family. Acquiring a high ranking position in the structure of terminal values of a senior adolescent, a happy family life is the quintessence in the notion of the parent family. This, in particular, is reflected in the behavioral patterns of resolving life situations and in the flexibility of the family system, which in future will be set up by a today's adolescent. summarizing the results obtained in our study, we may draw a conclusion that the description of not only a real, but also of an ideal family made by senior adolescents include upon the whole characteristics of a semi-functional type of family system. Describing the ideal family, boys and girls do not just rely on interaction patterns familiar to them or seek to compensate for unsatisfactory for them style of relations in the parent family, but also demonstrate quite typical for their age maximalism, orientation towards common interests and a desire to be accepted and get support from those around them. This appears to be one of the needs of the majority of our subjects that have been blocked out and that they strive to meet to their satisfaction. The predominance in the perception of senior adolescents of emotionally distanced, disengaged and at the same time chaotic intra-family relations, can serve as an indicator of a high risk of emotional ill.