PHYSICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONING RISK OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Purpose of the study. Determine the role of physical environmental factors in the formation of the preconditions for the development of deviant behavior in population groups united by the territory of residence. Material and methods. The theoretical stage of the work was aimed at determining the key physical and geographical factors of the environment and assessing the indicators of social and criminal tension in 14 model regions of Russia. 1815 students, men and women aged 18-28, representatives of the population of the model regions participated in the field stage of the work. The psychological status of the respondents was determined by assessing the indicators of the Freiburg multifactorial personality questionnaire; accentuations of character, suggestibility, frustration, irritability, adventurousness; vectors of social activity and destructiveness; prosociality-asociality; type of behavioral activity (A-B). Identification of the experience of using psychoactive substances was carried out by self-assessment of the subjects. Correlation analysis was used for statistical data processing. Results. The average annual temperature is negatively related to the level of crime (p=0.012), the number of abortions (p=0.0001), the degree of alcoholization (p=0.004), the level of smoking (p=0.011) in society. With an increase in the average annual temperature, both in men and women, the level of consumption of narcotic substances increases (p=0.05 and p=0.23, respectively), spontaneous aggressiveness (p=0.63 and p=0.024), frustration ( p=0.63 and p=0.024), irritability (p=0.068 and p=0.004), asociality (p=0.004 and p=0.247). As the average annual temperature decreases, both in men and women, the single dose of alcohol taken increases (p=0.086 and p=0.033, respectively), suggestibility (p=0.189 and p=0.049), emotivity (p=0.21 and p=0.05). The comfort of the environment is negatively associated with the level of suicide (p=0.039) in society. Only in men, comfort is positively associated with the level of consumption of narcotic substances (p=0.05), reactive aggressiveness (p=0.024), irritability (p=0.041), asociality (p=0.011), adventurism (p=0.001), severity of cardiotype A (p=0.018), and negative - with political activity (p=0.035). Conclusion. The systematic nature of the links between the physical and geographical conditions of the environment with social, psychological and behavioral manifestations of deviations among the population of Russia is revealed.