Correlation of commitment for alcohol drinking and peculiarities of personal responsibility in modern teenagers
One if the most urgent problems of psychological science and practice viz formation of inclination to deviant behavior and specifically commitment for alcohol drinking in modern teenagers is considered. In modern Russian society certain part of young generation is aimed at external values, easy life at the expense of other people, obtaining of pleasure by different ways including alcohol-drinking. The above result in life meaning perversion, substitution of universal values and meanings for ersatz-meanings, with drugs and alcohol among them, formation of different types of addictions, deviant behavior and person’s social disadaptation. Insufficient development of state’s ideology and world-view conception for our society, decline of family system and changing of family values, frequent disregard of moral and ethic norms, excessive demonstration of scenes of everyday dinking, aggressiveness and violence in mass media are possible causes. The importance and complexity of person’s value-meaning sphere formation in adolescence - the period of inconsistent and crisis conversion to adulthood that determines further development and person’s socialization - are stressed. The idea that low levels of voluntary self-control, self-reflection, skills of responsible moral- regulated behavior and personal maturity development along with absence of knowledge about harm of drugs, alcohol etc., underestimation of benefits and advantages of healthy life-style can become internal psychological conditions for formation of perverted life orientations with positive commitment for alcohol drinking is expressed. Statistical data confirming increasing in teenagers’ group brewer alcoholization that leads to physical and mental addiction from alcohol and person’s destruction are given but unfortunally alcohol is considered as a symbol of maturing and informal association in youth environment. Hypothesis that teenagers’ opposition to negative influence of society, asocial referent groups of microenvironment, alcoholic traditions and, as the result, prevention of deviant behavior, with early alcoholization among them, depends on peculiarities in development of personal responsibility for deeds, actions and life in the whole is set and empirically tested. Correlation between the level of alcohol-drinking commitment measured by means of “Incomplete sentences” method and individual-typological peculiarities of their responsibility as person’s system characteristic is revealed.