Socio-psychological Aspects of Adolescent Socialization in Lone-parent and Two-parent Families

The article presents major scientific viewpoints on socialization, problems of adolescent socialization, special features of the socialization of adolescent in one-parent families. It includes the results of investigating the internal (individual psychological features of personality) and external (some features of relationship in different social systems) determinants of adolescent socialization in one-parent and two-parent families. The results obtained supplement the content of the one-parent family cycle stage called “Growing up of children” for teenagers. As a personal feature (an internal determinant), adolescent anxiety has been found to correlate with a low level of organizational skills development in adolescents from one-parent families. On the external level of socialization determination the most important factor is an adolescent's interaction with his or her parents.