PSYCHOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF MANIFESTATION IN YOUTH AGE

Abstract

In this article theoretical analysis of researches of loneliness is presented as well as empirical research of this phenomenon among the young people. The main factors that prove the relevance of the study of this psychological phenomenon are the prompt increasing of social media popularity among the youth, urbanization tendency and the peculiarities of some age periods of personality development. The loneliness often is considered to be the problem of older generation, but in the modern world with technology development and high online-communication possibilities, youth feel themselves lonely more often. There is a stereotype, that only the people who do not know how to communicate with people can be lonely. However, the researches showed that social skills have no impact on social connections. For the long time loneliness was considered by scholars as a negative phenomenon, that can harm not only the mental state but also physical health of the person. The period of adolescence is characterized by the search of its place in the world and society and the willing of self-identification, privacy (Vanhalst, Gibb, 2015; Weiss, Bowlby, Parkes, 1973).

The move from the school to university that often is followed by moving to other town and necessity to set the new social connections. During the research of the mental state forming in the period of adolescence, it is important to note that in this age the necessity of self-identification, self-realization, and solitude in order of introspective observation of their own reactions and emotions is emphasized. These factors can be the cause of loneliness but in case of the right approach to overcoming the negative consequences of this phenomenon, loneliness can be a positive phenomenon in the period of adolescence. A positive attitude of youth to loneliness has rational content and motivation. Because this attitude gives the possibility to manage their own interests, preferences, and needs. In the state of solitude, the possibilities of self-investigation and self-identification are being developed.

In this work loneliness is reflected as a phenomenon the has the positive content and is the source for self development by young people. The peculiarities of the feeling of loneliness in youth; the stages of development of image of loneliness phenomenon; the impact of loneliness as the phenomenon of resource on the stage of personality formation.