Autoaggression as a result of self-alienation
- Authors: Kochetkova T.N.1
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Affiliations:
- Saint Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia
- Issue: Vol 16, No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 371-390
- Section: Psychological Studies
- Published: 30.09.2025
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2658-4034/article/view/349044
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.12731/2658-4034-2025-16-4-785
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/UDSCDK
- ID: 349044
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Abstract
Background. The widespread use of the Internet has seriously transformed the life of a modern person, providing him with huge amounts of information for various occasions, both objective and falsified. The network levels out differences in geographical locations, smooths out linguistic barriers, allows one to instantly receive information from the most remote corners of the world, turning into a source of information necessary for study and work, a means of communication, entertainment, income, including prosocial and delinquent ways of self-realization and self-affirmation. Part of the new «norm» in the era of globalization have become practices of autoaggressive behavior - piercing, tattooing, smoking, etc.
The younger the child, the more actively the network shapes his worldview, interests, values. The cult of individual success, actively represented on the Internet, gives rise to a feeling of failure, causing a desire to relieve tension through aggressive statements addressed to other people, cyberbullying, etc., which are easier to implement in the virtual space, using anonymous mode or a fake account.
Aggressive behavior is formed in the family. Parents who resort to various types of violence form disharmonious ideas about their own «I» in their growing children. In autoaggressive behavior, the emphasis shifts from the external world to the internal one, leading to socio-psychological maladaptation in the long run.
The aim of the study is to analyze the autoaggression phenomenon.
Materials and methods. The work uses methods of theoretical analysis of literature, induction, deduction, abstraction.
Results. Self-aggression is a consequence of adaptation to conditions that exceed a person's adaptive capabilities, which provokes an increase in somatic and mental illnesses and increases the risk of suicidal behavior. Biological and socio-psychological reasons underlie autoaggression. The negative impact of the reference environment causes object self-perception, personal inflation, reducing the restrictive role of social norms and prohibitions. «Chronic» self-aggression programs a destructive life scenario.
About the authors
Tatiana N. Kochetkova
Saint Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: Tatnik2021@yandex.ru
PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology of Extreme Situations
Russian Federation, 149, Moskovskaya Str., Saint Petersburg, 196105, Russian Federation
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