Drozdova M. Mechanisms of parental images reflection in the youths' representations about political leaders

The research results of peculiarities and main mechanisms of connection between parental, real and ideal political leaders images in youths' consciousness are presented in this thesis. It is founded the connection between intellectual-business and communicative traits of one or both parents and political leaders images. The age and sexual peculiarities of this connection are explored. It is shown, that this connection is providing by transference mechanism, which is displayed in different forms: projective-attractive, projective, attractive, stereotype-attractive and identification. The author program of psychological seminar for development of youths' reflective and socio-perceptive skills is proposed.