Psychological components of aggressive behavior of youth in internet communication

Abstract

Purpose of the study of the study is to identify the psychological components of aggressive behavior
of young people in online communication. Methods. The research uses methods of observation, interviews,
questionnaires, methods of document analysis and expert assessments, standardized and projective research methods,
which revealed the features of observation, questionnaires, computer polygraph examination, modeling; ascertaining
and formative experiments, diagnostics of indicators and forms of aggression of aggressive behavior of the person in
Internet communication. Results. The system of socio-psychological factors of aggressive behavior of young people in
cyberspace is determined: predisposing personal factors of aggressive behavior of young people in Internet communication (cognitive personality traits, dissociative ideas, solipsic introjections); predisposing factors of the virtual
environment of cyberspace (anonymity, invisibility, self-organization, asynchrony, equality, disembodiment, violence in
multimedia content of cyberspace, a finite set of forms of aggressive behavior in cyberspace, Internet culture of virtual
youth together); situational factors that reflect the objective component of the virtual social situation (roles, type of
virtual environment, means of interactive virtual interaction, aversive event); situational factors of aggressive behavior
of young people, reflecting the subjective component of the virtual social situation (subjective interpretation of the virtual
social situation, goals of aggressive behavior, rules and regulations, emotional perception of the virtual social situation).
Based on studies of socio-psychological factors of aggressive behavior of young people, systematic mental representation
of the Internet developed a systematic general model of aggression, which focuses on people in both virtual and real
situations, and means of socio-psychological reduction and prevention of cyber aggression.