The attitude of socially active youth to leadership

Abstract

Introduction. The paper deals with the problem of the relationship between leadership and social activity of a person, determined by the specifics of the socially active person’s self-identification with social and group leadership, and their types, on the example of young people involved in socially significant activities. The aim of the study is to reveal the specificity of the socially active youth’s attitude to leadership as a social phenomenon and to the behavioral model in a social group. Materials and Methods. The study involves the assessment of the following indicators reflecting the attitude of socially active youth to leadership: self-identification with social and group leadership, their types, and the value of leadership status in the group and self-evaluation of characteristic personal traits. The collection of empirical data was carried out using the questionnaire method, which was conducted by the authors among the participants of “Slavic Commonwealth” International Camp of Young Activists in 2016. The number of respondents was 120. The study sample was target. The statistical analysis of primary data (in SPSS Statistics 20.0) was carried out by methods of frequency distribution, grouping, and contingency analysis; respondents' answers to open questions were processed by the content analysis method. Results. The research revealed the socially-active youth's characteristic ideas of leadership, their