The article represents the definition, characteristics and theoretical approaches and psychological basis to constructive fatherhood strategies development. The specifics of the constructive fatherhood strategies development are analyzed in the connection with the life experience and family conditions of the man from an early age. The paper features such components of fatherhood strategies as gender role acceptance, characteristics of the spheres of life goals and sense-bearing and that of personality maturity. It provides the results of a 12-year longitudinal study of the psychological training of responsible fatherhood. The article also represents an analysis of immediate and delayed (about ten years after the training) results of psychological courses for men with no children at the moment of the training. The conclusion is that responsible fatherhood courses for male adolescents have a positive longtime (10 years +) effects.
The paper presents the analysis of the positive body image formation among young women, characterizes determinants of female body image and describes the results of an experimental study. The purpose of the study was to test the possibility of developing a positive body image by the means of psychological training. The study involved women aged 18—20 (N=64). The methods included questionnaires and interviews. The results show that the body image of young women was associated with unrealistic external standards, and there is a certain ambivalence to them. On the one hand, the indicators of the component of the body image which included information and evaluation are quite high in youth, but body dissatisfaction is also high and a significant part of the girls rely on external standards in assessing attractiveness. In the course of the formative experiment, it was found that the development of positive body image is promoted by personal psychological training aimed at reducing weight and body shape concerns, expanding internalized stereotypes about the body and increasing the body’s worthiness (differences in the body image components before and after training are significant at p≤0.05).
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