Abstract
The purpose of the study presented in this article is to study the social and psychological characteristics of activity of modern youth in the context of its social and political activity. The relevance of the study carried out involves on the basis of theoretical data the necessity to create practice-oriented recommendations aimed at development of social and political activity of youth, taking into account the social demand. An empirical study involved 150 people (at the age of 18 to 27 y. o.). The social and psychological study devoted to the study of social and psychological characteristics of social and political activity, helped to establish a number of features that make up the psychological content of this phenomenon. In that way, social and political activity is heavily tied to civic and protest activity, which is confirmed by the obtained correlation relationships. The factor analysis carried out revealed 3 main factors, differentiated by the presence or absence of a load in relation to social and political activity, which we called: “Citizens”, “Oppositionists”, “Indifferents”, that reflect the psychological content of social activity.
Highlights
Today, the issue of youth participation in the political life of the country is becoming relevant again
Despite a rather high subjective assessment of participation in these types of social activity, young people identify the educational activity as a priority type, which includes the following activities: participation in subject Olympiads; contests; scientific conferences; design and research activities; various educational initiatives, clubs, forums, events (“Total Dictation”, “Geographical Dictation”, etc.); getting additional education (Palace of Children and Youth Creativity; music and art schools; hobby groups, creative studios; additional professional training); attending developmental trainings, public lectures, master classes and other events aimed at personal development and the acquisition of new skills
The first step in interpretation of contextual characteristics of political activity was the establishment of correlation relationships between the selected type of activity and other types of social activity, which we studied using the presented methodological tools
Summary
The issue of youth participation in the political life of the country is becoming relevant again. These trends are due to two aspects. For social psychology, especially in those matters that relate to the determination of the social, and in particular, the political activity of youth, it is important to study the content of the issue, namely, the study of those social and psychological characteristics of personality that determine the young person’s real desire to indulge in domestic political processes. We will try to answer a number of questions relating to the determination of the modern youth political activity
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