PECULIARITIES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION ADOLESCENTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Abstract

Purpose. The article is devoted to the identification of peculiarities of interpersonal communication of adolescents in the Internet for further development of the program of development of skills of safe and productive interpersonal communication of adolescents in social networks. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the use of social networks not only generates the problem of adolescent Internet addiction, but also has a negative impact on the process of socialisation, as well as provokes bullying and other violent actions against the developing personality.
 Method. The study involved 56 adolescents aged 14-15 years - students of the centre of education of the city of Tula. As a diagnostic material were used methods to identify interpersonal and communicative features of adolescents (questionnaire of interpersonal relations A.A. Rukavishnikov and questionnaire K.S. Zhmyrko); determination of the level of communication of adolescents (questionnaire of interpersonal relations A.A. Rukavishnikov and questionnaire K.S. Zhmyrko). Zhmyrko); determining the level of communicative tolerance in the process of interpersonal interaction (the method of diagnostics of communicative tolerance V.V. Boyko); establishing the main orientations in the communication of schoolchildren (the method of diagnostics of motivational orientations in interpersonal communications I.D. Ladanov, V.A. Urazaeva).
 Results. The results obtained during the diagnostic survey allow us to conclude that adolescents, due to their psychological and personal characteristics, unformed culture of communication in social networks, inability to express their opinions and defend their own point of view, create situations of conflict in social networks and provoke cyberbullying.
 Practical implications. The materials of the study can be used in the work of psychological service of educational organisation and contribute to the development of skills of effective and safe communication in social networks among adolescents, formation of resistance to the negative impact of virtual environment.