Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Abstract
Students in front of unemploymentThe number and intensity of social and economic changes that have been taking place in Poland bring about the situation of instability, unrest, growth of numerous problems, upsetting the feeling of security as well as adaptation problems of many Polish families. All these factors do influence the young people who start their adult life because they may have a substantial effect on their system of values, feeling of self-value, their own image or the level of fear. These questions may be particularly visible in the areas which are in danger of unemployment. Our research comprised the students of politology, pedagogics, information technology and technical education living in the district warmińsko-mazurski. Our aim was to determine whether the perception of unemployment (with regard to the closest members of family and the forecast as to one’s own situation after graduation) influence in any way some features of the personality of the examined: level of fear, image of one’s own, crisis of values). Assuming that the family can be treated as a system, we can expect that the situation of the nearest ones will exert influence on the other members of the family. According to the regulative concept of personality, there is a mutual impingement between an individual and the environment – any changes in one of these systems will effect the other system