An Experimental Study of the Value Attitude of Adolescents and Youth to Various Forms of Dependent and Extremist Behavior

Abstract

Introduction. The choice of the research topic is due to the growing trends in the manifestations of substance dependence among adolescents and young people, the risk of their involvement in extremist activities to promote the superiority or inferiority of citizens on the basis of nationality; condemnation of the country's political course, undermining the constitutional order and violating the integrity of the state, relevant both in Russia and in countries on all continents of the planet. The purpose of the article is an experimental study of students' value attitudes towards dependent and extremist behavior. Materials and methods. The survey involved students from secondary schools and organizations of secondary vocational education in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federation. The total sample size of respondents was 1,919, including 930 students in grades 7-9, 399 in grades 10-11, and 590 in vocational education organizations. The processing of the received data set was subjected to a c