Deviant behavior on the Web: cyberbullying

Introduction. Every year, the living space of the individual is expanding due to Internet technologies, turning the ordinary human environment into a space of mixed reality. At the same time, there is an interference of forms and strategies of behavior already famil-iar to a person from reality with those that virtual reality opens. This not only leads to a new experience of human interaction, but can also catalyze personal and behavioral de-viations. The purpose of the article is to describe the criteria and individual forms of de-viant behavior of a person in the Internet space. Materials and methods of research. The aim of the study was to identify the relationships between the form of deviant behavior of a person in the Internet space and his/her personal characteristics in adolescence. Dur-ing the empirical study, the following methodological tools were used: a questionnaire to determine the level of personality online activity (A.I. Luchinkina, 2014), the “Orien-tation” scale of the “Personality in Virtual Space” questionnaire (A.I. Luchinkina, 2014), the “Cyberbullying Propensity” questionnaire (I.S. Luchinkina, 2019), the Cognitive Er-rors in Internet Communication (CEC) questionnaire (Luchinkina, 2019), the SPA ques-tionnaire (Rogers-Diamond, 2002), a method for diagnosing character accentuations (C. Leongard – G. Schmishek, 2004). The results of the study and their discussion. The study identified groups of respondents in the adolescent sample who are prone to cyberbully-ing, but who occupy different role positions in it. It was determined that there is a pro-nounced correlation between the position in bullying and individual individual-personal the characteristics of users, the peculiarities of their thinking.