Characteristics of Teenager-to-Parent Relationships and Their Inputs into the Formation of Juvenile Personality Helplessness

AbstractThe article presents an empirical study of styles of family education and relationships in families having teenagers with personality helplessness. It shows differences in the characteristics of family education for teenagers with helplessness and for those with self-dependence, and notes low level differentiation of family relationships in families having children with personality helplessness. It analyzes indicators of patronage parents, the degree of satisfaction of the teenagers’ needs in the family, the demands and sanctions imposed on the child, especially the mechanisms of family integration, and the structural and role-playing aspect of family life. Styles of family education, in which significantly more children grow up with personality helplessness, i.e. hyper protection, hyper moral responsibility, rough handling and family upbringing inconsistence are defined