PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPE OF THE MOTHER OF A CHILD WITH SPEECH DISORDERS AND HER ATTITUDE TO THE CHILD AND HER FAMILY ROLE
The research submitted is based on the assumption that the attitude of mothers of children with a general underdevelopment of speech of the 3rd level towards the child and its upbringing, as well as towards their family role, differs depending on the psychological type of the mother. Application of the Questionnaire of Parental Psychological Type (V.V. Tkacheva) and the methods of studying parental attitudes PARI revealed both differences and common features of mothers' parental attitudes. It was revealed that mothers of all psychological types are characterized by a clear desire to protect their child, a tendency to take excessive care of him, as well as an idea of their own high responsibility in raising a child and excessive workload. Mothers of the authoritarian psychological type are distinguished by the conjugation of the attitude towards the child with the attitude towards their family role, the predominance of the tendency to dominate and set on super-authority, a combination of excessive severity and excessive irritability. Mothers of the neurotic type also revealed high dissatisfaction with the family role associated with the idea of their self-sacrifice, and the lowest indicators of the block of emotional contact with the child, significant irritability. Mothers of the psychosomatic type demonstrated a positive combination of high values of the indicators of the block of emotional contact with the child and low values of the indicators of the block of emotional distance in their attitude towards the child, however, their excessive severity in relation to the child was also noted.