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"Philosophy of Education"

2015 year, number 1

The influence of individual experience on the victimization of the teenager’s personality

O. O. Andronnikova
Novosibirsk state pedagogical University, Vilyuiskaya str., 28, Novosibirsk, 630126, Russia
Keywords: victimization of personality, victim behavior, individual experience, teenagers, factors of victimization, deformation of the adolescent's personality

Abstract

The relevance of this study is conditioned by the fact that the category of individual experience still remains poorly understood. Also there remain uncertain the questions of influence of the individual experience on the process of victimization of the personality. The purpose of this article consists in studying individual experience as a factor of victimization of the teenager’s identity. The conducted theoretical analysis of the approaches to victimization research allows us to draw conclusions that it is expedient to consider this process through the behavioral manifestations of the personality, because it is in them that the personality realizes the victimization, i.e. the predisposition to become a victim. In addition, we have assumed the position of a social-psychological nature of the victimization of the individual. The category of individual experience is used in different directions of psychological science, which leads to the formation of completely different methodological ways of its research. However, in each work there is recognized the importance and inevitability of the influence of the individual experience on the actual behavior of the individual, which gives us a reason to consider individual experience as a factor of victimization of the personality. The article considers the influence of individual life experience on victimization of the individual and formation of different types of victim behavior of adolescents. There is provided a general overview of research papers on the impact of life experience on the psychological and physical condition of the person. An analysis is carried out of the main approaches to the study of the influence of life experience on the processes of socialization of the child in ontogeny. The events are singled out that lead to victimization of personality. There are presented the general results of empirical studies of the effect of the adolescent’s life experience on the victimization of personality, which have been carried out over five years as a part of the diploma and master's works. The total number of adolescents having been studied is 196. As a result of analysis of the individual experience of teenagers, there have been identified four factors of victimization of adolescent's personality, containing the following characteristics: poorly structured memories with the absence of samples of productive conflict resolution; cognitive simplicity and weak reflexivity over the experienced events; object-ness and the teenager’s not being included into the events taking place; the experience of actions of the helping nature associated with the desire to receive and give support to others. The practical significance of this study is in the possibility of using the obtained results by the experts to develop preventive, remedial programs of psychological development of adolescents.