Virtual deviant activity of adolescents: causes, forms, prevention
Adolescence is a risk factor for the development of various deviations due to such features as increased egocentrism; craving for resistance and protest, the desire for risk, immaturity of moral beliefs, low tolerance of difficulties, increased aggressiveness. Deviant activity can be understood as a social phenomenon expressed in statistically stable and mass forms of activity that do not correspond to officially established social, cultural, group expectations and norms. Deviant behavior in adolescence finds its expression not only in the real, but also in the virtual space. One of such manifestations of deviant behavior among adolescents is bullying and cyberbullying, which have negative consequences for the psyche of its participants. The article presents the results of a study of the real and virtual deviant activity of modern adolescents, as well as psychological recommendations on the organization of work aimed at the prevention of bullying in the educational environment.