PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF BODY TATTOOING IN MODERN YOUTH

Abstract

The study of young people who apply tattoos and without them is discussed in the article. If earlier tattooing was considered as a destructive subculture of the criminal world, today the attitude of young people to tattoos has become a self-expression, a sign of their subculture. However, following the fashion most often has psychological aspects and mechanisms. The hypothesis of the study was the assumption that the perception of the body image, the characteristics of identity and selfattitude, self-presentation and existential orientation of young people with and without tattoos will have an internal relationship and significantly differ from each other. The study involved 112 young people with and without tattoos. Differences were found between the characteristics of young people with and without tattoos, such psychological aspects of the desire for tattooing were revealed, such as: perception of the body as a carrier of information, rather than the perception of the body in its holistic context; identification of young people with tattoos correlates with feminine characteristics and creative roles; high self-presentation, adequate self-esteem and low self-attitude; low level of comprehension and existential fulfillment.