PARENTAL AGE CHARACTERISTICS AND OFFSPRING PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS PECULIARITIES IN URBAN POPULATIONS OF EAST UKRAINE

Performed detailed analysis of parental age characteristics (mean childbearing age and father to mother age difference) in the sample, composed of academic youth of the East Ukraine, is actual in relation to marital age increasing at the general depopulation tendencies in Ukraine. Parental age increasing in the studied sample is not associated with a risk of cognitive and personality deviancies development. In a general parents of older age groups have offspring with higher IQ level. Higher educational parental level is not a risk factor for a higher childbearing age. Female offspring is relatively stable in relation to cognitive and personality traits under parental age differences increasing in comparison with male offspring.