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ABSTRACT
Background: The article presents the results of an empirical study of the psychological characteristics of young people in the conditions of forced migration.
Purpose: Conducting empirical studies of the psychological portrait of youth in condition of migrational processes.
Methodology: A number of theoretical and empirical methods were used, as well as methods of mathematical and statistical analysis.
Findings: Young people, refugees from Ukraine differ from other refugees in the procedure for granting protection and its focus on temporality; the well-being of such young people is influenced by external and internal factors; among the frustrating factors bureaucracy stands out, among the problems of functioning – the language barrier.
Practical implications: The results obtained can be used to help in the process of socio-psychological adaptation of refugees from Ukraine by social services, foundations and private psychologists.
Conclusions: The risk zones of identity in the areas of health, correlation with society in a small number of subjects were studied, which together with a high indicator of the language barrier causes the presence of cultural shock in these young people and a decrease in the level of psychological health against the background of forced resettlement.
Keywords: youth, migration, refugees, adaptation, frustration.
