Socio-Psychological Features of the Prosociality Formation in Adolescent Leaders with Negative Orientation

Abstract

<p>Nowadays insufficient attention in science and penitentiary practice is paid to socio-psychological factors that cause the development of destructive leadership of positive and negative orientation. The material is devoted to the improvement of methods and technologies of preventive psychological work with juvenile offenders who are leaders in their environment. The authors describe the main features and characteristics of destructive leadership with positive and negative orientation, substantiate the forms of psychological and pedagogical influence in the organization of preventive work with juvenile offenders. A program of prosocial personality development has been developed, aimed at overcoming deviant behavior and developing (strengthening) the prosocial orientation of the individual through the formation of an axiological, instrumental and motivational-need component of the personality.</p>