Socio-perceptual mechanism of adolescent autodestruction

Abstract

The article is devoted to the actual problem of adolescent autodestruction, aimed not at self-realization of a person, but at self-destruction, degradation and premature death. The driving forces of this behavior are the mechanisms of resolving the inner contradictions of the personality by the teenager. The author analyzes how teenagers build their relationships with the outside world and lives them in the inner world. Through a series of diagnostic studies and statistical procedures, the socio-perceptual mechanism of auto-destruction is established as a way to resolve contradictions in relationships and communication with other people, the result of such activity leads to the appearance of semantic formations of self – consciousness, which are manifested in behavior-auto-destructive or constructive. The result of the mechanisms of auto-destructive behavior is mental neoplasms that have a semantic "charge" for a teenager. The correction of these formations will ensure the overcoming of autodestruction. At the same time, the main pathos of the correction is an appeal to the personality of the teenager himself, to his potential for self – development. This potential is small, but it is there, and the task of correcting self-destruction should be associated with its strengthening, facilitation.