SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENCE

Abstract

The analysis of scientific research allows us to conclude that the ambiguity of the interpretation of the concept of prosocial behavior, as well as the psychological characteristics of social-behavioral behavior in adolescence, is an actual problem of the present. The article deals with the interpretation prosocial behavior in the works of national and foreign researchers. The historical aspects of the emergence of the problem of prosociality is determinate. Prosocial behavior is a type of person's behavior that involves any kind of assistance in favor of social communities. The differences of prosocial and altruistic behavior are determined. Prosocial behavior involves receiving the benefit of helping, distinguishing it from altruistic behavior. An overview of the theories of altruistic behavior is given. They are the theory of social exchange, the theory of social norms, the theory of evolutionary psychology. The peculiarities of the personality of the teenage period of life are characterized, social and psychological peculiarities of the adolescent are described in the difficult conditions of modern society. It is determined that the prosocial orientation of behavior of adolescents is ambiguous and controversial, since it is in the stage of formation. In this regard, there is ambiguity in the attitude of the child-teenager to helping others. It is during this period that the transformation of moral priorities takes place. The prospect of further research in this area is considered an empirical study of psychological peculiarities of social behavior in adolescent children.