Postawy życiowe młodzieży licealnej i ich wybrane – społeczno-demograficzne – korelaty
Life attitudes of secondary school students and their chosen socio-demographic correlates

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the analysis of life attitudes/ attachment styles among secondary schoolteenagers in terms of selected factors that determine their development. The authors draw on thefundamental assumptions of E. Berne’s theory of transactional analysis, as well as on the model ofattachment styles, created by K. Bartholomew and L.M. Horowitz, which describes the individual's attitudes towards self and others and emphasizes the fact that the attitudes are determined bythe environment in which the person lives. Research data indicate that secondary school teenagers tend to have positive views of self, although they exhibit negative attitudes towards others. This points to a dismissive-avoidant model of attachment (I am OK, You are not OK), characterized bydrive for self-reliance and a tendency to avoid emotional intimacy in interpersonal relations. Theresearch reveals that the most significant correlates of attitudes towards self include such variablesas gender, age and mother’s education level, whereas the individual’s opinions of others are influenced by the person’s religiosity as well as his or her mother’s education level.

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