SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN EXTREMIST ORGANIZATIONS
The identification of socio-psychological determinants of youth involvement in extremist organizations meets the preventive goal of preventing involvement and resisting all kinds of agitation of extremist activity. The research aims to identify and describe the socio-psychological determinants of youth involvement in extremist organizations. The object of the study: youth as a socio-demographic group. The subject of the study is the socio-psychological determinants of youth involvement in extremist organizations. The socio-psychological determinants of youth involvement in extremist activities were revealed during the analysis of scientific literature within the framework of the problem field of the study. The results of the study are presented by a number of identified and described socio-psychological determinants of youth involvement in extremist organizations: an acute sense of justice, justice as the dominant value; experience of abuse (including bullying); the state of frustration of the most relevant psychological needs; state of identity crisis; solution of the issue of confessional self-determination; weak subjective position (prerequisite of victimization); surrogate satisfaction of psychological needs as the main strategy and prerequisite of addiction. A special combination of socio-psychological determinants constitutes the novelty of the study. The revealed list of socio-psychological determinants has strong justifications, presented by the authors in the section "research results". The practical application of the results obtained in the promotion of preventive purposes is provided - the development of diagnostic tools to identify potential adherents of extremist ideology and activities.