Forecasting in the environment of personal and situational anxiety of orphan children

Abstract

One of the important factors for successful socialization of children is developed prognostic activity which may be considered as an activity which is adequate to the manifestation and formation of predictive competence. Children living in family deprivation conditions have problems in communication that can be caused both by negative experience and lack of the ability to objectively assess situations, difficulties in differentiating emotions, in predicting their behavior and the actions of other people. Our research is aimed at studying the specifics of the predictive capabilities of orphans depending on the level of their anxiety. The sample consisted of orphans (20 people) and children raised in families (20 people). We discovered the specificity of correlation between the level of anxiety and predictive competence in the general sample of orphan children, which proves that a high level of general school anxiety and the fear of not meeting the expectations of people make orphans form their predictions within a narrow social context, constructing passive position in predicted situations – that is, in their forecasts, children act as passive subjects who are not involved in resolving the situation. The abundance of greats in the forecasts of orphans in the total sample is explained by their fear of the situation of knowledge testing and by general anxiety at school. The specificity of forecasting in orphans with high and medium levels of general anxiety lies in the invariance of forecasts which determines the risk of deviations as well as in the dominance of infantile behavior patterns in predicted situations.