Features of Social Intelligence of Adolescents with Different Types of Victimization Behavior

Introduction. The main factors influencing the realization of victim behavior include violations of emotional interaction between parents and children, as well as the lack of a certain educational strategy. It is revealed that social intelligence significantly reduces the risk of victimization behavior due to expressed empathy. Objective. To study the peculiarities of social intelligence of adolescents with a pronounced propensity to victimizing behavior. Materials and methods. The study used diagnostic techniques, including observation, conversation, the use of standardized methods (O. O. Andronnikova's method of diagnosing victimization behavior, J. Guilford's method of diagnosing social intelligence and M. A. Odintsova's questionnaire "Type of role victimization"). Statistical processing methods such as Spearman's rank correlation criterion and Mann-Whitney U-criterion were used to analyze the data. Results. For adolescents with high victimhood as a characterological trait is characterized by the blurring of moral and moral guidelines, the prevalence of non-constructive styles of behavior, expressed fickleness in mood, vulnerability. Adolescents with a low level of victimhood are characterized by a positive emotional background, more pronounced satisfaction with daily activities and more pronounced emotional control. The correlation between the features of social intelligence, the level of social intelligence development and manifestations of victimization behavior has been found. The main components of social intelligence, which play a key role in the formation of confident behavior as opposed to victim behavior, are outlined. Discussion. The growing level of uncertainty in modern society causes the general victimization of the population, where adolescents are the most vulnerable social category. Vulnerability in this age period is manifested in categorical thinking, increased sensitivity to stressors and perception of problems and difficulties as insoluble. As the adolescent develops unfavorable social conditions, these traits act as risk factors, and the sense of victimhood is formed as one of the features of the personality character. A sufficient level of social intelligence, which consists in the ability to predict the behavior of another person, taking into account the logic of the situation, as well as in the identification of common essential features in the non-verbal behavior of a person, allows the formation of confident behavior as the opposite of victimhood.