Poziom poczucia alienacji u nieletnich w zakładach resocjalizacyjnych

The article relates a research performed on a group of 50 boys and 50 girls, 15–18 years of age, socially unit and staying in reformatories, and on a reference group of other 50 boys and 50 girls who do not display any traces of being socially unfit, measured using the Alienation Feeling Scale (AFS), developed by Kmiecik-Baran. The main objective of the research was to determine differences in feeling alienated between the examined and reference groups, as well as differences in regard of their sex. He differences in average alienation rates bettween the groups show a similarity of feeling alien and being unfit, which is proved by substantial differences between the fit and unfit boys in all AFS categories exept anomia. Lesser differences of the said categories have been observed between the fit and the unfit girls. The unfit girls feel more isolated while their fit peers show a higher sense of meaninglessness of life. Substantial differences can be observed in regard of the sex of the groups being examined, suggesting that the boys are more sensitive to both favorable and unfavorable conditions, which consequently increases their alienation level. This particular sucseptibility of the boys makes their being socially unfit a phenomenon of a slightly different nature than that of the girls.