Interrelation between self-regulation and social adaptation of adolescents with intellectual disorders

Samoylyuk L. A., Logunova K. G., Khripko O. S.

The issue of self-regulation in adolescents with intellectual disorders (intellectual disability) is one of the least researched areas in special psychology. The article looks into correlation between self-regulation and social adaptation of adolescents with intellectual disorders. The following methods and techniques were used: psychodiagnostic method (based on A. K. Osnitsky’s method of “Self-Regulation” (modification)); expert assessment (teacher’s questionnaire aimed to determine how well constituents of cognitive development are formed (regulatory constituent) (by S. A. Domishkevich) and assessment scale of social adaptation (by E. L. Indenbaum); statistics method. Self-regulation is characterized in accordance with different levels of adaptation of intellectually impaired schoolchildren. It has been proven that those test subjects with higher levels of self-regulation go through social adaptation more smoothly.

Keywords:adolescents with intellectual disorders (intellectual disability), self-regulation in adolescents with intellectual disorders, social adaptation of schoolchildren with mental disability, self-regulation as a factor of social adaptation.