The Influence of Social Networks on the Formation of Socio-Psychological Attitudes of Adolescents

   Recently, mass communication media have an intense psychological impact on the attitudes of adolescents with not yet fully formed psyche, which is difficult to adapt to modern realities and exclude the impact of the Internet and social networks on their lives, as well as to choose media that are beneficial for the harmonious and intellectual development of the individual.
   The aim of the study was to study the influence of social networks on the formation of socio-psychological attitudes of adolescents.
   The article presents a theoretical analysis of the concepts of "social networks" and "socio-psychological attitudes", describes the functions and properties of social networks, and identifies the possible risks of the influence of social networks on the socio-psychological attitudes of adolescents. As a result of an empirical study, it was found that adolescents who spend more than two hours a day on the Internet, material, personal and creative socio-psychological attitudes predominate. For them, the leading one is the Self-orientation, which determines, as a priority, the attitudes towards rapid enrichment, the satisfaction of their own interests, and the achievement of their own goals. Social status and prestige are of particular importance to them. Also, this category of teenagers showed a tendency to increase the indicator of selfishness, a strong orientation towards money, for which you can buy any life, love and happiness. Also, empirical data were obtained that confirm the statistical reliability of the results that there is a direct relationship between the time spent by adolescents on the Internet (more than two hours a day) and the degree of severity of their negative socio-psychological attitudes. Thus, adolescents with predominant negative socio-psychological attitudes need specially organized psychological and pedagogical support. Psychological and pedagogical support of adolescents in the context of the formation of their socio-psychological attitudes under the influence of social networks and the Internet is a systemically organized professional activity of teachers aimed at creating psychological and pedagogical conditions that contribute to the gradual transformation of negative attitudes into adequate, positive attitudes that contribute to the formation of a healthy, harmoniously developed personality of a teenager.

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