STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENTS TENDING TO VICTIMAL BEHAVIOR IN VIRTUAL SPACE

Abstract

The article considers a victimal behavior of teenagers in virtual space as a form of activity of teenagers in virtual space characterized by antisocial orientation in Internet communications and resulting in the formation of a status of the victim at a teenager. In an empirical research it was tracked that teenagers with high level of victimization, who display themselves in virtual space, are characterized by: a high level of acceptance of the Internet as living space, aspiration to stay in the Internet environment for a long time (U=92, р =, 042); they are focused on people’s assessment of their information in the network (they are concerned about quantity of likes, comments under their records, often join the most prestigious groups, participate in the most rating actions organized by administrators of communities on social networks, etc.) (U=100.5, р =, 053); Distinctions are reliable at р ≤ 0.05. The results of carrying out the correlation analysis (a parametrical criterion was a coefficient of correlation of Pearson (r)) showed that victimal teenagers in network communication show: a motive of personal space in virtual space due to creation of personal closed pages online, seek for violation of norms of communication in network; feeling of belonging to network culture, prove installation on self-identification with already existing images of characters of network games, accept the Internet as living space, are guided in their behavior by the social approved actions in the Internet network. On the basis of the results of one-factorial regression analysis it was succeeded to establish that a realized victimal behavior of teenagers statistically significantly influences their communicative installations realized in virtual space "orientation" (R2=0.319; p=0.000) and also on motives to the actions having criminal character (fraud) (R2=0.426; p=0.000).