THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LOVE FOR GIRLS OF ADOLESCENCE

The work presents theoretical and methodological study aimed at clarifying essence and content of the manifestation of love. Revealed that love passes through certain stages of its development, in particular, sympathy, love and affection. Among its main structural components are identified: the integrity of the individual, spiritual intimacy and responsibility. Also the leading kinds of love are established: the first, romantic, sexual love, love by calculation, neurotic and true love. The results of our empirical study show that girls aged 17 to 18 from rural areas are more slanted to the manifestation of true and neurotic love, and urban ones to sexual love. At the same time, all girls aged 19 to 20 years prefer sexual and neurotic love.