SCREENING-DIAGNOSTICS OF THE PREREQUISITES AND FORMS OF SOCIALLY DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR IN THE INSTITUTIONS OF GENERAL VOCATIONAL AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Svetlana N. Andreeva¹*, Svetlana A. Domracheva²*
¹Assoc. Prof., PhD, Mari State University, RUSSIA, swetlana64@list.ru
²Assoc. Prof., PhD, Mari State University, RUSSIA, domracheva-sa70@mail.ru
*Corresponding Author

Abstract

The article considers the currently topical problem of socially dangerous behavior among adolescents and youths. The author lists the characteristics of socially normative, negative, socially inadequate and socially dangerous behavior. The notion of “socially dangerous behavior” is compared with the concepts of “social security” and “socially safe behavior”. The characteristics of socially dangerous and socially safe behavior as well as the structure of readiness for socially dangerous and socially safe behavior are also reviewed.

Moreover, the article describes the types and criteria for adolescent risky behavior and various forms of cyber-aggression in social networks, the main reasons for which are virtuality and anonymity.

Juvenile socially dangerous behavior is caused by social and biological factors. Some scientists consider delinquency as a social phenomenon, while others stick to the biological reasoning. The following social conditions can be attributed to the external factors of behavior disorders: a socioeconomic situation, traditions, youth’s subculture, a family, friends and other significant people. The representatives of the biological understanding attempted to explain criminal behavior as a biological phenomenon, caused by physical and phycological peculiarities of the doer of the action.

Further in the article there are methods for examining deviations, examples of research into different forms of socially dangerous behavior and the analysis of efficiency of the methods employed. Sobkin V. S. and Fedotova A. V. applied the survey with a specially worked out questionnaire to studying adolescent aggression in social networks. On the basis of the analysis of the research findings the authors distinguished key factors influencing adolescent’s attitude towards the display of aggression in online interaction: gender, age, the intensity of communication, self-representation in the internet, status in the class and evaluation of life prospects.

The research on aggression, conducted with the help Questionnaire Aggression upon pupils of The Mari El republic, revealed the prevailing forms of aggression among adolescents. According to the research findings in teenage years there appear to be mainly physical, indirect and verbal aggression, negativism, suspiciousness, the sense of guilt. The intensity of their demonstration declines into young adulthood.

The article’s conclusion proposes the inferences for the characteristics of socially dangerous behavior and its effective study methods.

Keywords: socially dangerous behavior, deviant behavior, delinquent behavior, additive behavior, risky behavior, cyberbullying, trolling, astroturfing, screening.