VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND COMMUNICATION INDICATORS REPRESENTATIVES OF FANDOMS

The article examines the relationship of value orientations with typical ways of relating to people and with empathy components in representatives of two modern youth fandoms. Correlation analysis revealed that eight out of eleven value orientations have the most significant relationships with involvement in activities and acceptance of other fandom participants in it. At the same time, the relationships with control and affect demonstrated the same amount, but they were different in content and severity. Of the components of empathy, empathic concern had the greatest number of connections, which increased with increasing importance of the value orientations of help and mercy, love and enjoyment of beauty