The Features of the Personal Value-Semantic Sphere of Internet Users with a Deviant Type of Internet Socialization

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AbstractVirtual space leads to the formation of completely new values and meanings, which a person embeds in his personal-semantic sphere by selecting functional (tested in practice) semantic constructs. Recognizing the importance of many modern studies, it should be noted that in them the value-semantic sphere was not a complex object of research, but its individual components were touched upon. Despite the otherness of the Internet in relation to the real environment, the features of the system of values and meanings of the individual, in the context of its functioning in the Internet space, were practically not considered. The purpose of the study: to identify the psychological features of the value-semantic sphere of the personality of Internet users. At the stage of the ascertaining experiment, we used: focused interviews with Internet users; a questionnaire by A. I. Luchinkina aimed at identifying the level of Internet activity of the individual; the research questionnaire “Value-semantic sphere of the individual in virtual space” (R. I. Zekeriaev); the questionnaire “Personality in virtual space” (A. I. Luchinkina). As a result of the study, it was found that the value-semantic sphere of the Internet user in the virtual space is represented by specific values-beliefs and values-actions. Internet users with deviant (asocial) behavior in the Internet space are characterized by the following values and beliefs. Also, differences in the ways of implementing values-beliefs were found in this category of users, not only from the standard respondents, but also among themselves.KeywordsVirtual realityInternet spaceThe personal value-semantic sphereThe personal virtual imageValues-beliefsValues-actions