TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FRUSTRATION REACTIONS OF MODERN YOUTH

Abstract

The article considers the problem of development of frustration reactions of modern youth. It was found that the problem of explication and categorical definition of the phenomenon of frustration has been in the field of study of scientists of various profiles for a long time, but in modern socio-cultural conditions, it has gained a new degree of relevance. In the course of our theoretical analysis it was found that a frustrating reaction is an individual's response
to emerging insurmountable (objective or subjectively understood) obstacles that block activities on the way to achieving the goal, accompanied by a number of emotional manifestations. Our empirical study covered 20 students. The aim of studying the external factors that provoke the appearance of frustrating reactions and states was supplemented by empirical methods common in psychological practice (observations, interviews, questionnaires, etc.), which made it possible to form a general picture of frustration in the educational process. The main criteria for external analysis of reactions to frustration situations were: manifestations of aggression, motor activity, apathy, fixation, escape, and so on. The presence of the above behavioral indicators became examples of the external expression of unconstructive frustration response of students. As a result of a more detailed analysis (using the methods of questionnaires and interviews) it was found that such forms of behavior are specific to those students who were assigned to a group of students with a predominance of unconstructive reactions of frustration. The results of Rosenzweig's projective method aimed at studying the frustrating reactions of young people make it possible to state that the orientation of adolescents' response has a hierarchical component of the obtained indicators. The hierarchy of direction of reactions is dominated by external manifestations of response, internal orientation to non-directed. The dominance of outwardly directed reactions is characteristic of adolescence and is associated with increased activity, emotionality, a desire for self-defense, and defending one's position.