Keyword: «internet addiction»

Adolescents are the most susceptible to information found on various internet resources, which can lead to the distortion of different aspects of their personality, such as their self-esteem. The aim of our study was to examine the specifics of self-esteem among adolescents with varying degrees of Internet addiction. The empirical data obtained allowed us to find out that the self-perception of modern adolescents depends on the specificity of the influencing factors combination, and the degree of Internet addiction is only one of them.

The predominance of virtual communication over real interaction in the modern world makes it necessary to study the peculiarities of the communicative sphere precisely in adolescence, whose leading activity is intimate and personal communication. The purpose of our study was to examine the specifics of the communicative competency of adolescents with varying degrees of dependence on the Internet. The empirical data obtained made it possible to determine the characteristics of the communicative competency of adolescents with a high degree of Internet addiction.