Factors influencing the formation of adolescents’ personal readiness to resist the negative influences of Internet socialization

Abstract

Importance. The active use of modern technologies by schoolchildren in everyday life, providing access to the virtual space of the Internet, which contains a large number of threats to the normal development of minors, contributed to the emergence of interest in the scientific community in the problem of forming the adolescents’ personal readiness to resist the negative effects of Internet socialization, as well as the identification of factors influencing this process. The purpose of the study is to research the factors influencing the formation of adolescents’ personal readiness to resist the negative influences of Internet socialization.Research Methods. This study is carried out on the basis of integrative, axiological, personalactivity and environmental approaches. The following research methods are used: analysis of scientific literature on the research topic, comparison, generalization, systematization, structuring of information.Results and Discussion. It is proved that the formation of adolescents’ personal readiness to resist the negative effects of Internet socialization is influenced by a set of factors that can be conditionally divided into two groups: external (information technology environment, natural and sociocultural factors) and internal (biological and individual psychological characteristics).Conclusion. The practical application of the obtained results is possible for the development of technology for the formation of adolescents’ personal readiness to counteract the negative effects of Internet socialization.