Irina V. Kulagina

The relevance of the study consists in an attempt to empirically verify the idea about the opposition of self-realization of the individual and the tendency to deviant behavior as it is stated in the psychological literature. The purpose of the study was to test the assumption about the connection of self-realization aspects with various forms of deviant behavior. As a result, we found significant correlations between certain aspects of self-realization of young men studying in secondary specialized educational institutions and some forms of deviant behavior. The revealed connections are accompanied by probabilistic interpretations.

The main feature of middle age is the process and result of reconsideration of values and the purpose of life and activity, which determines the relevance of examining these aspects in relation to men and women of this age period. We have assumed that the transformation of the sense sphere of a middle-aged person has a gender specificity. For this purpose, an empirical study was organized. The results of the study confirmed the suggested hypothesis, and also made it possible to identify the main distinctive features of the crucial choices of middle-aged women and men.

Modern media space, as a new environment of socialization, often contains models of deviant behavior that can be borrowed by participants in virtual relationships, since they are broadcast by reference persons. Subsequently, such behavior can be transferred to real interaction and block personal growth. The purpose of the study, due to this aspect, was to identify the dominant forms of deviant behavior in young men studying at a secondary vocational educational institution. The results obtained indicate that the predominant strategy of respondents is demonstrative socially desirable behavior.

The current situation of the information technologies dominance arouses research interest in relation to the influence of this fact on the structure and characteristics of self-realization of young men, because it is adolescence that is recognized as the most relevant in the formation of self-realization. The purpose of the research was to identify the features of self-realization of young men studying in an institution of secondary professional education. The results obtained show the average indices of all diagnostic scales, which were reduced to four factors by means of factorization that form the structure of self-realization of the examined young men.

The relevance of the implemented study is due to the increase in the number of persons with deviant forms of behavior, which negatively affects both the state of society in general and the development of these individuals in particular. The aim of the study was to understand the characteristics of adaptation to the environment in persons with drug and alcohol addiction and in a sample of persons without deviant behavior. The results obtained made it possible to state the absence of statistically significant differences in the degree of adaptation among persons with drug and alcohol addiction and respondents with no deviations in behavior. At the same time, the qualitative characteristic features of the adaptation were found in respondents with drug and alcohol addiction.