The relationship between self-esteem and personality formation of adolescents prone to victimizing behavior

Abstract

The article considers the results of the study of self-esteem of adolescents prone to victim behavior. The relevance of the study is due to the increasing number of cases of victim behavior in adolescence and the emergence of its new forms, which determines the need for timely organization of preventive work with such students by an educational psychologist. The article highlights the provisions of domestic and foreign studies of self-esteem of adolescents prone to victim behavior, presents the results of empirical research conducted by the authors of the article. Its purpose was to establish the peculiarities of self-esteem of adolescents prone to victim behavior. The study used the method of testing and methods of mathematical statistics. The test subjects were 30 college students (males) aged 15–17 years old. The authors established the peculiarities of self-esteem of adolescents prone to victimization: insufficient differentiation, inconsistency, lower assessment of physical appearance and appearance and higher assessment of skills for labor paid activity.