GENDER PECULIARITIES OF STUDENT YOUTH PREDISPOSITION TO VICTIM BEHAVIOR

Abstract

The article represents theoretical and practical workouts concerning the main gender peculiarities of predisposition and manifestation of student youth victim behavior. Psychological factors and peculiarities of victim behavior in elder juvenile age have been analyzed in the article. Particular attention has been given to gender specificity of manifestation of victim behavior in elder juvenile age. Meaningful value has been given to the solution of the indicated problems of student youth in the context of preparation of a professional specialist, sufficient to self-realization of a personality. A person’s gender as oneself and in combination with other characteristics, profession or kind of occupation has a high coefficient of victimhood. It has been determined, that young boys are more inclined to aggressive victim, self-destructive hyper social behavior than young girls.Two-way behavior is peculiar for them: provocative, when another person is involved in causing harm, and self-inflicted, which is characterized by predisposition to risk, thoughtless actions, often dangerous for a person itself and for surrounding people. And also young girls are more inclined to dependent and helpless behavior than young boys. In other words young girls are not inclined to stand against in case of danger for various reasons: first of all, due to physical weakness, fear, misgiving of responsibility about own illegal or immoral actionsї, and secondly, because of setting on helplessness. Young girls, who are involved in crisis situations, seek for compassion and support of others, are in a role position of a victim, they more often are shy and conformal, experience subjective difficulties in activity organization and have low frustration tolerance. Peculiarities concerning the prophylactic work on preventing of victimhood have been highlighted. The main tasks of victimhood prophylaxis is detection and fixing of positive personality traits, formation of ability to make a choice independently, awareness of responsibility, timely resolution of conflicts.