May 2018, № 5 (217), pages 88-93

doi: 10.25198/1814-6457-217-88

Gerasimova I.V. INTERRELATION OF THE LONELINESS PHENOMENON AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INTERNET ACTIVE USERSWidespread in the modern world of Internet addiction actualizes the problem of violations of interpersonal interaction of active Internet users. Getting invaluable experience of interpersonal communication with new people, maintaining Internet communication with multiple recipients leads to superficial connections with communicators. The search for the meaning and essence of the identity of modern man, on the one hand, is enriched, on the other — complicated by the dynamic process of virtualization of the existential space. By providing a person with new bright opportunities for interaction with others and a variety of ways of self-expression, virtual reality creates all the conditions for the formation of countless virtual images, identities. Computer dependence is closely connected with subjective experiences of a person, in particular with the feeling of loneliness. And communication skills play an important role in the emergence of feelings of loneliness. When reducing them, most often there are difficulties in communication, isolation and avoiding real contacts. Interpersonal and social interactions become secondary interactions. There is a change and transformation of consciousness, rationalization of mental activity, violation of self-identity, emotional alienation, desocialization and destructive changes in the psyche. These facts have a negative impact on the formation of personal characteristics of a person and lead to the formation of accentuations, that is, to the sharpening of some character traits that subsequently affect the adaptation of a person to society.
The study involved 50 people, students in the 3^rd year of study. The representative sample included 25 boys and 25 girls aged 19–20 years who are active users of the Internet. The method of cross-sections was carried out with this age group and the following methods were used:
personality questionnaire mini — mult F.B. Berezin and M.P. Miroshnikov, aimed at studying properties of the personality; the method of screening diagnostics of computer based on L.N. Yurieva, T.Y. Bolbot — samoobrony aimed at identifying computer addiction (including Internet addiction); assessment of the level of sociability V.F. Ryakhovskiy, a measure of the General level of sociability; scale subjective feelings of loneliness S.V. Dukhnovsky, aimed at determining the degree of experience of loneliness, which serves as an indicator of harmony-disharmony of interpersonal relations and an indicator of proximity-remoteness between the subjects of relations.
This study confirmed the positive relationship between Internet addiction and social loneliness.
With the development of Internet addiction, there is a regression in the information processes of the system organization of the individual at the levels of intelligent response and self-organization, which leads to the predominant localization of information processing at the level of automatism and reflexive reactions.Key words: Internet, social networks, addiction, students, self-identity, communication, interaction, transformation of consciousness, emotional alienation, desocialization, destructive mental changes.

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Author: Gerasimova I.V.

Year: 2018

doi: 10.25198/1814-6457-217-88

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