Family as a resource for overcoming difficult life situations in children affected by hostilities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22035192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | O A Ulyanina (0000-0001-9300-4825, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education), O L Yurchuk (0009-0004-3221-2945, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education), L A Aleksandrova (0000-0003-3539-8058, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education), E A Nikiforova (0000-0003-0488-6497, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education), K A Faizullina (0000-0002-2985-9332, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 127-147 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2221-1527 • E-ISSN: 2311-7052 |
| Publisher | Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.17759/sps.2025160408 |
| OpenAlex | W7117543287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
Context and relevance. Children who have suffered to some extent as a result of hostilities, including those living in the territories directly affected by hostilities, experience the psychological consequences, such as maladjustment, manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder, depletion of psychological resources necessary to survive and overcome these hard life situations. Family, parents and other important adults play a crucial role in child’s overcoming such consequences. Objective. To clarify the role of family and parental individual resilience in their children coping with hard life situations and traumatic experiences related to hostilities. Hypothesis. Family resilience and parental individual resilience manifested themselves as psychological resources of children, contributing to the successful overcoming difficult life situations associated with hostilities. Methods and materials. The study involved parents (legal representatives) of children of preschool and primary school age from six regions of the Russian Federation, to varying degrees affected by hostilities. The data of the survey of parents of 1671 preschool-age children aged from 1 to 8 years ( М = 5,4, St.Dev . = 1,5; 51,7% boys), and data from a survey of parents of 3702 primary school children of 1-4 grades aged from 6 to 12 years ( M = 8,9, St.Dev . = 1,2; 51,0% boys). The following psychodiagnostics were used: to inventory the traumatic experience of children: 1) a list of psychotraumatic events related to hostilities aimed to assess the children experience; 2) Screening technique for assessing the condition of children who survived the consequences of hostilities (Ulyanina et al., 2025); 3) Parental questionnaire for the assessment of traumatic experiences of children (Tarabrina, 2001), to assess the psychological resources of the family and parents; 4) Family resilience assessment Scale (FRAS-RII) (Gusarova et al., 2024), Brief resilience scale (BRS) (Smith et al., 2016), Russian version of Markova et al., 2022. Results. 1) According to parental estimations; prevalence of hard life situations caused by traumatic experience associated with hostilities, is higher in children of primary school age compared to preschool children; 2) traumatic experiences of children and adult family members are positively connected with signs of maladjustment and PTSD and negatively – with the child’s own psychological resource in both age groups; negative interconnections of traumatic experience with family resilience and parent’s individual resilience are found only for primary school children; 3) parent’s individual resilience and the family resilience along with the child’s psychological resources showed negative correlations with signs of maladjustment and PTSD contributing to the child’s overcoming the difficult life situations associated with hostilities. Conclusions. The results of the study highlight the role of family in children’s overcoming the negative psychological consequences of traumatic experiences associated with hostilities Family resilience and parent’s individual resilience manifested themselves as one of the key psychological resources protecting children of preschool and primary school age from negative psychological consequences of traumatic experiences
Coping behavior · Family life · Psychological resilience · Psychological stress · Psycholinguistics and Behavioral Studies · Psychology of Development and Education · Resilience and Mental Health
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |