THE FAMILY PSYCHODYNAMICS AND COHESION AS A PREDICTOR OF THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN SCHOOL

Abstract

UDK 316.356.2

The contemporary era is a time when the family, upbringing principles and family relations are changing fast. These values are thus losing its quality and significance in the process. This is an era marked by forgetting that the family is the place wherein the child is learning the initial social values and is establishing his first human relations and his position in the society. The family should be the place that offers understanding, security, protection help and love to the child. All these elements provide bonding amongst the members of the family. The family is the place wherein the emotional life of a person is established and developed and wherein the basic structure of a personality is formed. It is within the family that the person gets his bases of the view of the world, where his work, moral and esthetic culture is developed. The parents here have the most important role and task, and that is to create and form, through examples and family situations, capable, mature, hard working, responsible and decent personality.   Our era, characterized by a very fast and busy pace of living, is becoming more complex and more delicate environment for socialization and creating emotional stability in children. Family has a tremendous role in up-bringing and educational process and has a significant influence upon the child’s success in school. Tears in the child’s eyes are most often due to the disharmonious relations within the family. Either as a result of non-understanding on the behalf of parents, lack of care due to the busy pace of life or a poor socio-economic status of the family. Quarrels between the parents or a divorce of parents are the problems that permanently affect the overall development of a child and hence its educational achievement in school. This is an era when within the family everything is more important than the family itself, more important than the spouse, the child, parents-teachers meeting, homework or simple family gathering and enjoying the blessings of a family given to us by God.