Emigracija lietuvių šeimose: paauglio asmenybės pozicijos raida tėvams išvykus dirbti svetur
Emigration in Lithuanian families: development of the attitude of an adolescent’s personality in case of the parents departing to work abroad

Summary/Abstract: The research aims at revealing the development of the attitude of an adolescent’s personality when parents have departed to work abroad. When planning the research, we based it on the theoretical principles of activity and structuration, enabling to explain the development of the attitude of an adolescent’s personality as a consequence of pedagogically governed social activity of the disciples with regard to the social and physical restrictions of their activity. The features of partial attitudes of an adolescent’s personality, related with the adolescent’s approach to studies, extra-curricular activities, relationship with the environment and self-esteem were assessed by applying the method of written questionnaires. In order to find out the variables of the object of research, an independent random sample was developed; it featured 1,355 adolescents (701 males and 654 females) who were selected from 6th to 11th forms of various Kaunas District secondary schools. According to data of the research, when fulfilling the need of social involvement, students whose both or one of the parents have emigrated participate in extracurricular activities more frequently in comparison to those whose parents reside in Lithuania. Among children of emigrant parents, physical education activities prevail among males and art-type activities among females. As regards the attitude of an adolescent’s personality to communication related with social behaviour, it has been established that children of emigrant parents (one or both) dislike attending school more frequently than students whose both parents reside in Lithuania; males are more inclined to damage material assets of the school and local community, to get involved into fights with peers (the latter pattern of behaviour is also common in females). When assessing the relationship of the adolescents with themselves, children of emigrants were found to have an inferior self-esteem, to smoke and abuse alcohol drinks more frequently.

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