The Experience of Studying Specific Features of Social Attitudes and Value Orientations among Normative and Deviant Teenagers

Abstract

The topical problem of deviant behavior in the teen milieu is raised in the article. For
this purpose, specific features of value orientations and social attitudes in normative
and deviant teenagers are studied in the article. Empirical research was conducted with
the use of psychological tests of values, the semantic differential and proneness to
deviant behavior, and the results’ processing and interpretation is carried out on the
basis of a comparative analysis with application of the statistical criterion. Based on the
data obtained the conclusions have been drawn about the specific features of value
orientations and social attitudes in normative and deviant teenagers that are expressed
in deviant teenagers’ striving for the thrills and determine the manifestation of
deviations in their behavior.