Позитивные изменения. Том 4, №1 (2024). Positive changes. Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)

The Victoria Charitable Children’s Fund makes special efforts to create a supportive environment throughout the city of Armavir, where the “Graduate’s Home“ project is implemented. The fund develops programs to support foster parents (factor of caring adults), supports teen and youth projects aimed at developing youth participation (factors of opportunity to participate in decisions and management, leadership), as well as teen and youth volunteer and sports projects (factors of leadership, positive peer groups, involvement in community activities). A large number of recreational and supportive activities are organized for different age groups (factors of positive peer groups, emotional support), provides safe housing (factor of physical and psychological protection).

In the course of living in the social hotel at the center “Graduate’s Home,“ the children form and strengthen not only basic skills of housekeeping and personal budgeting, but also a careful attitude to each other, respect, cohesiveness, understanding of “brotherly support,“ and the ability to find a constructive way out of conflict situations.

Specialists working in the project play an important role in assisting graduates to resolve social, psychological, and legal issues. Having necessary professional support and backing contributes to strengthening an individual’s network of social contacts and enhances confidence in the future.

ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROGRAMS AND TRAININGS THROUGH PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS

One of the tasks of the “Graduate’s Home“ project is to provide psychological assistance to graduates for working through past traumatic experiences, enhancing self-esteem and readiness for independent life, and emotional and personal development. Special emphasis is placed on resilience training (Ordina, 2023). The following methods were used to measure the effectiveness of the work in providing psychological assistance to young people with orphanhood experience:

1. The resilience test (S. Muddi) adapted by D. A. Leontiev and E. I. Rasskazov.

2. The Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ), developed by R. Lazarus and S. Folkman in 1984, adapted by L. I. Wasserman.

3. Express diagnostics of the level of self-esteem, developed by N. P. Fetiskin and V. V. Kozlov.

4. The questionnaire “Study of volitional self-regulation“ developed by A. V. Zverikov and E. V. Eidman.

SAMPLING

The research was conducted during the 2021–2022 academic year. In the resilience trainings within the “Graduate’s Home“ project, 27 adolescents (pregraduates and graduates), including 11 females (41 %) and 16 males (59 %), aged 14 to 20 years (M = 16.3), participated. All of them took part in three-month resilience development programs. All the 27 individuals represent 100 % of the age group targeted by the project.

DATA ANALYSIS METHODS

Descriptive statistics and variance analysis using Student’s t-test for dependent samples were performed in the Jamovi 2.4.11 program.

RESULTS OF THE STUDY

Changes in Resilience Indicators Based on Psychological Assistance Provided in the “Graduate’s Home“ Project (2021–2022)

The key indicators of the resilience test are:

1. Commitment: an individual’s belief that being involved in ongoing activities provides the best chance to find something worthwhile and engaging.

2. Control: an individual’s belief that struggle can influence outcomes, even if the influence is not absolute and success is not guaranteed.

3. Challenge: a person’s conviction that everything that occurs aids their development through the knowledge extracted from experiences, regardless of whether they are positive or negative.

4. The overall resilience score is the cumulative sum of the scores on the three scales.

Descriptive statistics of the resilience indicators are provided in Table 1. The data are distributed normally, which permits the utilization of the variance analysis procedure to assess the training’s efficacy. Given that the data were gathered through paper surveys and a portion of the surveys lacked responses to all the questions, a varying number of respondents is observable in the table, ranging from 24 to 27.

Table 1. Cescriptive Statistics

RESULTS OF VARIANCE ANALYSIS EFFECTIVENESS OF RESILIENCE TRAINING