Features of victim identity of adolescents with chronic diseases

The article presents the results of a study of the characteristics of the victim identity of adolescents with chronic diseases. There are many studies of adolescents' with chronic diseases personality traits in the scientific literature, but insufficient research has been found on the problem of victim identity of adolescents with various chronic diseases. The purpose of this research is to study the characteristics of victim identity of adolescents with chronic diseases. The results of an experimental verification of hypotheses put forward by the authors about the presence of differences in victimization characteristics between three groups of adolescents with chronic skin, chronic urological and chronic gastrointestinal diseases and the presence of a link between indicators of victimization with anxiety and social orientation and the presence of a difference in these links between the three groups are presented. Methods developed by Andronnikova O.O. used in the study: "Methodology for the study of propensity to victim behavior" by Andronnikova O.O., test of the sacrificial position of personality by Andronnikova O.O., test of victim identity by Andronnikova O.O.; Taylor's methodology for measuring anxiety level (adaptation by T.A. Nemchinov), Methodology for diagnosing socio-psychological attitudes of personality in the motivational-need sphere by O.F. Potemkina. As a result, it was found that adolescents with skin and urological diseases have a significantly higher degree of tendency to hypersocial, sacrificial behavior than adolescents with gastrointestinal diseases, adolescents with skin diseases are significantly more likely to get into threatening situations, have a greater internal predisposition and willingness to victimize situations, have a tendency to aggressive impulsive behavior more than adolescents with urological and gastrointestinal diseases. Adolescents with urological and skin diseases are significantly more likely to use sacrifice as a punishment for themselves, significant differences are found between the group of adolescents with gastrointestinal diseases and the group with skin diseases, adolescents with gastrointestinal diseases are significantly less prone to this than other groups. Adolescents with gastrointestinal, skin, and urological diseases differ not only in terms of victimization, but also in the structure of relationships between victimization and anxiety and social orientation, which indicates the importance of comparison not only in individual indicators, but also in the structure of their relationships.

Identity, Victim identity, Identity formation, The sacrificial position, Victim's position, Chronic diseases, The impact of chronic diseases, Victim identity research, characteristics of victimization, victimization