Peculiarities Of Interpersonal Communication Of Adolescents – Active Internet Users

Abstract

Analysis of foreign and domestic approaches to the problem of studying the peculiarities of virtual communication and interpersonal communication in adolescence is presented in the paper. The increasing influence of information-communicative technologies on the social and interpersonal interaction of participants of communication is demonstrated. A significant role of virtual reality (cyberspace), existing on the basis of network technologies (Internet environment), in the life of the human being, and first of all, of the adolescent, was determined. Peculiarities of the influence of the long-term communication in the social networks on the personality of the oncoming generation were discovered. The results of empirical study of peculiarities of virtual and real communication of adolescents, the level of formation of communicative situations are presented. A comparative analysis of peculiarities of adolescents’ communication showed that adolescents, preferring virtual communication to the real one, are characterised by a low level of sociability, insufficiently formed communicative abilities, demonstrate dependent and aggressively-competence reactions in the situations of criticism (both just and unjust), of conflict, the necessity to make a request, to show and accept sympathy and support, to come in contact with other person. On the basis of the obtained results, recommendations for parents of adolescents, spending a significant amount of time in cyberspace, which are reduced to setting a time limit, which can be spent on the Internet, blocking the programmes, lacking educational and pedagogical nature; for psychologists of educational organisations, including the complex of psychological-pedagogical measures, aimed at formation of communicative competence in adolescents.