Trust in and Perception of Parents in Children with Different Coping Strategies

The article reviews the problem of children's trust in relation to children's perception of parents. Children of different age (N= 119). The following methods: the projective techniques «Kinetic family drawing»; «The Sacks sentence completion test»; «Children's coping questionnaire». Data processing: content analysis, correlation analysis (Spearman's rho), IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0. The study has revealed that as children grow older their perception and understanding of trust shifts from family relationships to friendships. Relationships with peers start to “oust” close family relationships spurred by the emerging need to share information and to find an object of trust which would demonstrate specific qualities.