INDIVIDUAL-TYPOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES IN THE STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION

Abstract

Background. Within the problem of personality orientation, the relationship between personality orientation and asocial behavior is emphasized. The issues related to individual-typological differences in the structure of the asocial orientation of personality are based on solving two types of tasks: identifying the dominant component in the structural organization of the asocial orientation of learners' personalities and determining risk factors and protective factors that define the targets for the prevention of deviant behaviour, including problematic Internet use among learners.
Methods. The following methods were employed: factor analysis; mathematical and statistical data processing; correlation analysis according to Charles Spearman; analysis of the significance of differences in the level of expression of quantitative indicators in unrelated groups using the Mann–Whitney U test; and descriptive statistical analysis. The study of individual-typological differences in the structural organization of the asocial orientation of learners' personalities using factor analysis by the principal components method involved 144 young people and adolescents aged 11 to 25 years, including males (n = 78; low-problem – 38, moderately-problematic – 20, problematic – 28) and females (n = 66; low-problem – 34, moderately problematic – 14, problematic – 20).
Results. The most significant intercomponent relationships (p ≤ 0,01) were identified between the motivational and behavioural components. The active indicators were the indicators of the motivational component of the asocial personality structure (the desire to oppose norms and rules, tendency toward aggression, antisocial actions) and the behavioural component (general aggression, physical aggression, initiator and accomplice behavior, antisocial, asocial, autodestructive, and aggressive-asocial manifestations in real and virtual spaces).
Conclusions. Similar intercomponent relationships (p ≤ 0.01) between the cognitive, emotional-volitional, and behavioural components, as well as between the indicators of anger, hostility, and general aggression, were identified among both male and female representatives. Individuals with an asocial orientation, regardless of gender, were characterized by the presence of physical aggression (the instrumental component of aggression), anger (the affective component of aggression), and hostility (the cognitive component of aggression). Among females with an asocial orientation, a negative correlation (p ≤ 0.05) was identified between the cognitive and behavioural components of the asocial orientation of personality, specifically between the acceptance of the female social role and antisocial and aggressive-asocial virtual activity.