Implicit effect in experimental studying of the deviant behavior of adolescents

Abstract

Deviant behavior in adolescence was noted by parents, teachers and philosophers at all historical times, but had a descriptive character. This social phenomenon has gained relevance for society in connection with urbanization, and therefore with the density of settlement in a limited area. The scientific study of a socially significant phenomenon has encountered difficulties in identifying non-obvious internal and environmental motivators that encourage subjects to deviate behavior. The psychological problem is seen in the identification and valid registration of implicit factors that stimulate the subject to socially disapproved actions. The aim of the study is to experimentally identify hidden variables that predispose to a decrease in deviations in the behavior of adolescents. The object of study is the deviant adolescent behavior. The task is to register an implicit effect that reduces the result of exposure in correctional training. 43 volunteers aged 14-15 years participated in the experiments. According to the observed behavioral signs, they were divided into two groups: a group of individuals with prerequisites for deviant behavior and a group of volunteers with socially acceptable behavior. For diagnostic procedures, the methods of Bass – Darka, Spielberger – Khanin, V. Zung, and the program of correction of deviance by G.I. Makartycheva were selected. The reliability of the results was determined by the Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon criteria, and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was calculated. The result is that adolescents with prerequisites for deviant behavior have an implicit effect – facilitation (the Zayonets effect) in the form of increased anxiety in the situation of group remedial classes.