This paper is about age specificity of adolescents’ respect for parents. Respect for parents of early-aged (N = 124) and middle-aged (N = 94) adolescents was studied empirically using the author’s technique “Respect for parents”, results of this study are described in the paper. Special attention is paid to the age-related peculiarities of sense of respect and prescribed adolescents’ respectful behavior. Relationship changes between the emotional attachment for parents and respect for parents during growing up are analyzed. The conclusion about the differentiation of sense of respect from emotional attachment in middle adolescence is made.

parent-child relationships, parents, adolescence, respect, respect for parents

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