РОЛЬ ИНФОРМАЦИОННОЙ СРЕДЫ В ДЕТСКОЙ КАРТИНЕ МИРА

Abstract

Preschool-aged children actively develop their sense of time based on the routine and cyclical moments of daily life, leading to the emergence of not only a present awareness but also primary concepts of the future. The informational environment, as one aspect of a children’s image of the world, becomes integrated into their life at the level of routine components (daily leisure activities surrounded by gadgets, media, and video broadcasts on various devices). The informational environment, being a part of the routine moments of a preschooler’s daily life, can significantly influence the formation of a child’s worldview (including the present and near future), coloring it with different tones (creating confidence in tomorrow or anxieties and fears). The article presents results of an empirical studying the specifics of children’s world image under the influence of information environments of varying intensities. It shows that a high-intensity information environment influences the formation of a negatively tinted worldview and future outlook in preschool children, leading to low life satisfaction and a pronounced need for stability in the external world. Boys were found to be more engaged in the informational environment than girls. It was observed that children in low-intensity information environments pay more attention to direct communication with parents and siblings, experience positive emotions from family interactions, have a positively tinted worldview, and are optimistic about their future in it.