Socio-psychological characteristics of students as subjects of communication, depending on their attitude to mediated interaction

Abstract

The article examines the problem of the relationship between the social and psychological characteristics of students as subjects of communication and their propensity for indirect communication, spending a significant part of their personal time in social networks. A comparative analysis of the severity of difficulties in a real act of communication among students who prefer direct (real) and mediated communication is carried out. The reliability of the results obtained is confirmed by analyzing the average values of the studied group indicators, and using the methods of mathematical statistics (correlation analysis, Student’s t-test) and found a relationship between the propensity of students to communicate indirectly, the time spent communicating in social networks and the severity of difficulties in real interaction, caused by their specific socio-psychological characteristics as subjects of communication. The greatest difficulties in their views are associated with the influence on the emergence of difficulties in communication of such parameters as the intensity of communication, the number of partners, the presence of witnesses of communication, age, gender, status; suspicious, arrogant, disrespectful attitude during the conversation; social-perceptual and expressive-speech characteristics of partners; as well as the skills and abilities of the interlocutor regarding the organization of interaction. As the main conclusion, the researchers note that students who prefer real and mediated interaction have various psychological characteristics that characterize them as subjects of communication.