Elena N. Volkova

Background. Psychological well-being is a criterion for assessing the type of adolescent's socialization processes. According to EPOCH model, the psychological well-being includes the adolescent's engagement, perseverance, optimism, connectedness, happiness. The correlation of psychological well-being and prosocial behaviour forms four types of socialization processes: positive, deviant, traumatic and negative socialization.

Objective. The purpose of this article is to study the components of adolescents’ psychological well-being as related to different types of socialization.

Methods. The diagnostic complex of the study included the 20-item version of the EPOCH questionnaire (Kern et al., 2016) and the prosocial behaviour scale from the Success and Difficulty Questionnaire for Children 11–17 years old (SDQ, Goodman et al., 2005), adapted for Russian-speaking sample.

Samplе. The study sample included 312 adolescents, 13–16 years old (M = 14.50, SD = 1.01), students of secondary schools, 141 boys (45.2%), 171girls (54.8%).

Results. The general level of psychological well-being and the expression of its main domains differ among adolescents with prosocial or asocial types of behaviour. Adolescents with positive socialization (46.8%) are distinguished by a high level of development of all domains of psychological well-being and prosocial behaviour. Adolescents with deviant socialization (15.7%) also have high levels in all the domains of psychological well-being, but asocial orientation of behaviour. Adolescents with traumatic socialization (19.2%) are characterized by low levels of psychological well-being, especially the characteristics of engagement and persistence. Adolescents with negative socialization (18.2%), also have a low level of psychological well-being, especially the characteristics of connectedness, and are prone to social nihilism.

Conclusions. The key factor of psychological well-being of adolescents with different types of socialization is the quality of interaction and relationships of the adolescent with other people, especially with peers. Constructive relationships both in case of positive socialization and in case of traumatic and even deviant socialization determine the success of socialization processes or possibilities of successful socialization, while violation of relationships and interaction blocks the positive development of sociality and attitude to oneself.