PHENOMENON OF THE INTERNET ADDICTION OF DEVELOPING PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPROFILACTICS OF ITS EFFECT ON THE SAFETY OF BEHAVIOR
In the article, the authors disclose the essence, psychological features of the Internet addiction of the developing personality. They described the place of computer game addiction in a number of other varieties of deviant behavior; five types of manifestation of computer game addiction were singled out and characterized. Particular attention is given to the substantiation of priority areas and to psychotechnologies of effective social and psychological prevention of the Internet addiction of the developing personality of minors as a system of measures to strengthen their security in modern Russian society. New empirical data introduced into scientific circulation systematically characterize the revealed direction and dynamics of growth in the number of addicted teenagers. They also show that a certain part of teenagers and young people in our country is already computer and internet addicted. This situation with Internet addiction in the conditions of aggravation of information strug- gle causes an acute need for taking measures to improve the security of the developing personalities of teenagers. This put forward new psychological problems associated with raising the psychological security of the developing personality.