Mental health of youth under the digital mediatization

The article deals with the study of mental health of Russian youth in the context of digital mediatization. The authors note that, although this topic is widely represented in the scientifi c discourse, there is no consensus among researchers. An analysis of current approaches to studying the problem of the infl uence of new media on the mental health of the younger generation shows that there is a tendency to move from the concept of “demonization” to the search for positive aspects. Nevertheless, unambiguous assessments of this problem still seem limited. The paper proposes a diff erentiated approach consisting in the analysis of both vectors of the infl uence of digital mediatization on the mental health of young people, both positive and negative aspects. In this regard, the authors reviewed the results of an empirical study of the Russian segment of the blogosphere on mental health issues. Based on the data obtained, groups of blogs (the so-called “patient” and “mentoring”) were identifi ed, and the features of the discourse in them about mental health issues were studied. The paper also analyzes the main factors of mental health and proposes criteria for their classifi cation.