Socially dangerous behavior of students: types and descriptors

Svetlana A. Domracheva¹*, Svetlana N. Andreeva²

¹Assoc. Prof., PhD, Mari State University RUSSIA, domracheva-sa70@mail.ru

²Assoc. Prof., PhD, Mari State University, RUSSIA, swetlana64@list.ru

Abstract

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical research of the problem of socially dangerous (deviant) behavior of schoolchildren. The urgency of the problem is caused by the growth of illegal acts of behavior and various forms of aggression, including pre-planned and with the use of weapons and a large number of victims against peers in the classroom.

The purpose of the research is to analyze the descriptors of socially dangerous behavior of schoolchildren – its types and causes. The main hypothesis of the research is the assumption that a number of psychological characteristics of a person predetermine its propensity to socially dangerous behavior.

The article describes the components of readiness of adolescents to socially dangerous behavior: value-motivational, cognitive, operational-activity, regulatory. Attributes of socially dangerous forms of behavior characteristic for separate types of deviant behavior are allocated: crime and alcoholism, drug addiction and toxicomania, prostitution, suicides. The factors contributing to the manifestation of socially dangerous forms of behavior and psychological mechanisms of deviations formation in adolescence are analyzed.

The article presents some results of an empirical research of the tendency to deviant behavior and aggression in adolescents enrolled in schools of the Republic of Mari El (Russia).  Such methods are used as the "Aggressive behavior" by E. P. Ilyin and A. P. Kovalev, the personality test by R.B. Cattell, the method "self-evaluation of the tendency to extreme and risky behavior" by M. Zuckerman. A total of 165 respondents aged 13-15 years were surveyed. It is established that socially dangerous forms of behavior are typical for adolescents with low tolerance of psychological difficulties, poorly adapting to the rapid change of life circumstances, seeking in this regard to achieve psycho physiological comfort faster and easier.

The results of the research allow us to conclude that the presence of certain descriptors in students does not necessarily lead to socially dangerous behavior, but allows us to identify a risk group for the purpose of psychological and pedagogical prevention of various forms of aggression in an educational institution.

Keywords: socially dangerous (deviant) behavior, aggression, socially safe behavior, descriptors (attributes), types, causes.