Prevention of Student Youth’s Victim Behavior

Albina R Drozdikova-Zaripova,Nadezhda Y Kostyunina,Natalia N Kalatskaya

doi:10.5539/res.v7n4p88

Abstract

New times put forward new tasks for teachers, psychologists, social workers. Prevention of student youth’s victim behavior is determined by social and practical importance of society democratization and humanization; by the necessity to develop physically and spiritually healthy, actively creating and socially adapted personality, by the increased demand for victimologic prevention and correction. The article substantiates the essence and motives of student youth’s victim behavior; it also reveals specific characteristics of student age: emotional immaturity, insufficient ability to control own behavior and other factors that increase the risk of becoming “a victim” due to adverse conditions of socialization. The research has resulted in defining pedagogical conditions aimed to prevent victim behavior: diagnostics to identify victim behavior among students; development and introduction of comprehensive prevention program “Life out of danger!”. The conducted research allowed to draw a conclusion that the approved program due to included various forms and methods offers an effective way to prevent student youth’s victim behavior.

Highlights

1.1 Actualization of the ProblemThe relevance of the problem concerning student youth’s victim behavior is determined by an aggravated tendency to the increase of the designated contingent among young people notorious for deviant behavior and becoming victims of crimes
The research has resulted in defining pedagogical conditions aimed to prevent victim behavior: diagnostics to identify victim behavior among students; development and introduction of comprehensive prevention program “Life out of danger!”
In compliance with the hypothesis, proceeding from understanding of the issue, the goals and object, the subject of the research the following tasks have been created: 1) on the basis of psychological and pedagogical literature analysis to reveal the essence and content of such concepts as “victimhood”, “victim personality”, “victim risks”; 2) to study characteristic features of student youth’s victim behavior manifestation; 3) to develop the content of the program which includes various forms and methods of student youth’s victim behavior prevention; 4) to verify in pilot-experimental work the efficiency of the elaborated program “Life without danger!” the aim of which is to decrease the level of student youth’s victim behavior

Summary

Introduction

The relevance of the problem concerning student youth’s victim behavior is determined by an aggravated tendency to the increase of the designated contingent among young people notorious for deviant behavior and becoming victims of crimes. The necessity for such researches is getting more and more urgent in connection with practical prevention (Sinelnikov & Sereda, 2002). Such issues as the genesis of victim behavior, system of factors determining its emergence, features characteristic for the manifestation of these patterns in students’ behavior have not been studied enough so far. The issue concerning the prevention of student youth’s victim behavior is one of the leading areas of pedagogue-psychologist’s work in an educational institution

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