Проблеми сучасної психології (May 2019)
A Psychological Content of the Conflict Behaviour of Young Adolescents
Abstract
The article presents the findings of a study of the psychological content of the destructive behaviour of young adolescents in terms of inconstant information society. It is proved that under the conditions of acceleration of the pace of the modern history and the development of the information society, a need arises to rethink the subjective indicators of the personality-ring of a child. It is stated that the accents are shifting in the direction of the development of critical thinking, ingenuity, creativity, selfbility of the formation of logical patterns of behaviour. The skills of shaping constructive interpersonal relationships are identified as the most significant achievement of the child’s personality development in the age of information progress. The author states the most sensitive to the variability of the social environment are those teenagers, whose risks of destructive and, in particular, conflict forms of behaviour are on the increase, on the background of the manifestations of the age-specific crisis of development. It is established that the phenomenon of bulling (harassment) as a deliberate, systematically recurrent aggressive form of behaviour based on the social inequality and / or the inequality of physical force is common among young adolescents. It is proved that teenage bulling and destructive forms of schoolchildren’s behaviour in the period of transition to adulthood acquire the signs of instrumental aggression, and are a variety of protection from the disrespect to personality. The author describes the results of the research devoted to modern adolescents’ behavioral strategies in conflict situations. It was empirically investigated the substance structure of the personological profile of the propensity for conflict and adolescent aggressiveness. It is established that the most significant personality characteristics of the complex of symptoms of aggressiveness and the propensity for conflict in young adolescents are uncompromising attitude and irascibility; in the complex of aggressiveness, positive aggressiveness prevails, which is characterized by such distinctive features of behaviour as offensiveness and intransigence. The conclusion is drawn that the purpose of teenagers’ conflict is mainly to upset the psychological balance of opponents and to assert oneself, which is explained by the lack of experience in constructive behaviour and dialogic communication skills. It is stated that modelling optimum personality constructs in adolescence is possible only in the context of acquiring personal experience of successful rational-constructive behaviour and enhancing the psychological culture of dialogic partnership.
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