The attitude to school shooting among high school students

The purpose of the study is to identify the peculiarities of the attitude of high school students, as subjects of the educational environment, to the phenomenon of school shooting for further effective prophylactic measures to prevent the occurrence of destructive manifestations in the youth environment. The article examines the factors and causes of the appearance of school shooting in children and youth environment, analyzes personal ideas about the phenomenon of school shooting and the attitude of high school students towards it. The interrelation of the perception of the phenomenon of school shooting and the psychological characteristics of schoolchildren (self-esteem indicators with the level of pretension, anxiety, aggressiveness) has been revealed, which makes it possible to assess potential risks arising in the educational environment and develop comprehensive psychological programs for the prevention of school shooting. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that it presents the peculiarities of the perception of school shooting as an actual social and psychological phenomenon for domestic research in connection with the psychological characteristics of high school students. As a result of the study, the causes and factors of the appearance of school shooting in the educational environment were determined. It was found that the attitude to school shooting among high school students of mass schools varies from neutral to negative. No positive attitude to this phenomenon was revealed. The attitude to school shooting is most clearly manifested in the projective drawings of high school students. It was also found that such personal characteristics of high school students as self-esteem, anxiety and aggressiveness affect the attitude to school shooting very slightly.