Faces of everyday life and psychosocial condition of the family in times of the real socialism in Poland

The article attempts to illustrate the social context of family life and its developmental potential in the decades of socialist realism in Poland in the light of S. E. Hobfoll’s resource theory. It was initially established that: 1) the family was subject to change and had different faces at different times, but also some common characteristics; 2) psychosocial characteristics of the family, its behavior, preferences, choices are understandable only in the context of the characteristics and properties of the whole system; 3) Family should be distinguished as an ideological-propaganda project from the family-product of everyday reality. Based on these assumptions and the theory of conservation of resources by S.E. Hobfoll it as attempted to discover and interpret the psychosocial behavior of the family in situations of stress and trauma, the source of which was the social context including effects of war, politic, propaganda and economic factors. The purpose of the analysis was to show the developmental potential of the family in the form of its external resources, which had an impact on its internal resources. It was particularly important to show the various adaptation strategies of the family to the prevailing living conditions, as they set the stage for development. An attempt was also made to identify the most important relationships among resources occurring in the family. The analysis was made on the basis of source materials, including personal documents (memories, letters), OBOP research and sociological and historical studies.