Attitude to the disease and the level of subjectivity development in adolescents with diabetes mellitus and neurological diseases

This study is devoted to the study of attitudes to the disease and the level of development of subjectivity in adolescents with diabetes mellitus and neurological diseases. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that adolescence is a key period in the formation of subjectivity. The revealed relationships between the attitude to the disease and the features of subjectivity can become the basis for the formation of individual programs for supporting a somatic patient. The study involved 64 adolescents in whom personality traits, the level of structure outside the situational subjectivity of the personality and types of attitude to the disease were studied. The results of the study: adolescents with diabetes mellitus are more likely to demonstrate anosognotic, ergopathic, harmonious and sensitive types of attitude to the disease. In adolescents with neurological diseases, ergopathic, sensitive and anxious types of attitude to the disease prevail. In the group of adolescents with diabetes mellitus, the "adaptive maturity" factor was revealed, which combines the following parameters: "self-value-low value" (+0.8620), harmonious type of attitude to the disease (+0.8062) and ergopathic type of attitude to the disease (+0.7259). In the group of adolescents with neurological diseases, the factor "conformity, maladaptability and rigidity" was described, which combines the following parameters: "creativity-standardization" (-0.8305), "mediation-spontaneity" (-0.7580), "self-value-low value" (-0.7150), "activity-reactivity" (-0.7097), and anxious type of attitude to the disease (0.6705). The differences highlighted the need for an individualized approach to supporting adolescents with medical conditions, taking into account their unique needs and characteristics.