The article analyzes the results of an experimental study of the accentuation of adolescents in a single-parent family.

Children in a destructive, dysfunctional and strictly authoritarian family have many neuroses. An incompatible family affects the excessive development of an accentuational character. In such a family, one of the parents is characterized by an excessively dominant position, and the other is too dependent. There is no genuine partnership.

      In the style of parenting, emotional contact is considered an important element. The position of both parents should be the same.In a single-parent family, there may be changes in the characteristics of the character due to the lack of a male identity in the child.In this regard, an experiment was conducted on the accentuation of adolescents in a single-parent family.

     The study presents the results of the K. Leonhard - N.Shmishek questionnaire and the Eysenck test.

      The purpose of the diagnosis: to determine the type and degree of manifestation of the accentuation of behavior.

       Subject of the study: adolescents raised in single-parent families aged 13 to 15 years.