Cultural and leisure activities and reflection characteristics of deviant adolescents

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comparative study of features of social perception, ostracism and tendency to deviant behavior among adolescents aged 12 to 18 involved and not involved in the activities of the Cultural and Leisure Centre «Izhorets» in Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg. The following techniques were used in the research: 1) associative experiment according to the method «SPI(H)» – structure of a person’s image (hierarchical) (V. Sitnikov); 2) scale of disturbed needs – ostracism (fear of rejection); 3) determination of tendency to deviant behavior (A. N. Orel). The results revealed differences in self-images and images of deviant adolescents, varying levels of ostracism, but no significant differences in the tendency to deviant behavior. The adolescents showed significant correlations between ostracism factors and the tendency to deviant behavior.