LINGUISTIC AND SEMANTIC MARKERS OF DESTRUCTIVE COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR OF ADOLESCENTS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
- Authors: Nikishina V.B1, Vishnevskaya A.A1, Gorbacheva A.S1, Petrash E.A1, Karpenko A.S1,2
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Affiliations:
- Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
- Head of the Department of General and Social Psychology MGIMO Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Issue: Vol 46, No 6 (2025)
- Pages: 46-56
- Section: Psychology and the internet
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0205-9592/article/view/361736
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034577X25060056
- ID: 361736
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Abstract
The communicative behavior of teenagers is shifting to the digital social space, namely, to social networks and messengers. In the context of the digital social space, the effect of online disinhibition occurs, manifested in a decrease in users’ self-control and a weakening of internal prohibitions (norms, rules) in the context of anonymous communication. Communicative behavior in the digital social space is implemented meaningfully and structurally in the form of speech messages. A significant proportion of speech units are expressed in the form of non-constructive patterns, which may be markers of destructive communicative behavior of adolescents in social networks. This article is aimed at studying the linguistic and semantic markers of destructive communicative behavior of adolescents in social networks. The study was conducted in the Telegram messenger in a chat where teenagers participate in three stages: data collection in the form of speech messages and their linguistic and semantic analysis; analysis and systematization of quantitative and qualitative data; interpretation and discussion of the results. The research methods used were the method of functional pragmatics, as a type of content analysis, methods of descriptive statistics (frequency and proportion analysis, analysis of averages) and correlation statistics (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient). As a result of the conducted research, it was found that the size of the speech message is 3.9 ± 2.5 linguistic units (number of words). A significant simplification of the linguistic structure of speech messages in the digital social environment has been recorded. In all parts of speech, the presence of obscene vocabulary is recorded, the occurrence of which varies from 12 to 60%, which indicates the generalization of this phenomenon in communicative behavior in the digital social environment. Obscene vocabulary plays a significant role in the communicative behavior of adolescents on social networks. As a result of the conducted research, markers and predictors of destructive communicative behavior in the digital social space were identified.
About the authors
V. B Nikishina
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Email: vbnikishina@mail.ru
Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Social Work Moscow, Russian Federation
A. A Vishnevskaya
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Email: rewvish@yandex.ru
Master’s degree student in the field of 37.04.01 “Psychology” Moscow, Russian Federation
A. S Gorbacheva
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Email: gorbacheva_as@rsmu.ru
Director of the Centre for Educational Programms Implementation of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Social Work Moscow, Russian Federation
E. A Petrash
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University
Email: petrash@mail.ru
Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Social Work Moscow, Russian Federation
A. S Karpenko
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University; Head of the Department of General and Social Psychology MGIMO Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Email: a.karpenko@odin.mgimo.ru
Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Moscow, Russian Federation
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