STUDY OF THE ACCENTUATED NEEDS OF YOUTH SATISFIED IN THE MEDIUM OF VIRTUAL SOCIAL NETWORKS

Abstract

In the article are theoretically substantiated and empirically confirmed the accentuated needs of modern youth realized within the virtual environment of social networks: the need for success, the need to increase and maintain self-esteem, the need to have identification, the need to increase or maintain the status. The authors describe the two-stage research conducted in the social network, conducted within the framework of the dissertation of Bezbogova M. S. (currently Kerre M. S.) «Social networks as a factor in the formation of social attitudes of modern youth».

Keywords

• accentuated needs
• needs
• youth
• virtual social networks