THE ORIGINS OF THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOLERANT /
INTOLERANT IDENTITY IN ADOLESCENCE
N.S. Zhubanazarova,
The candidate of
psychological Sciences, associate professor
N.M. Sadykova
The candidate of
psychological Sciences, associate professor
Absattar Zhaina
4 kurs student
Auken Zheniskul
3 kurs student
Kazakh
National University named after al-Farabi,
Kazakhstan,
Almaty
Adolescence
has always attracted and attracts the attention of most different researchers.
Despite the significant amount of accumulated Psychology variety of data about
the specifics of development in adolescence age, numerous attempts to solve the
problems of this period of development, it remains one of the most difficult to
account for periods of child ontogeny. Thus, the literature remains fairly
widespread belief that the whole adolescence is a development crisis, with all
its external consequences. Adolescence worst start to learn, they have lost
cognitive interests, they become rude adults, some realize the antisocial
behavior – that is not an exhaustive list of characteristics of adolescence.
This position is exacerbated by the fact that, as noted in the literature, at
this age are beginning to be realized, and lays the deviant forms of behavior
[1].
On the one hand, all or many of the
negative characteristics of the adolescent period of development can be
explained by the fact that adults do not understand
the psychology of
adolescents and, accordingly, do not create conditions for learning and
development appropriate to their age. On the other hand, there are some reasons
to say that many of the negative manifestations of adolescents are not only
natural but also vital.
In psychology, accumulated data
suggesting that in adolescence begins to develop rapidly self-consciousness. As
shown in several studies the formation and development identity contributes to the separation of the social world into
"us" and "them".
Given the sensory development of
adolescence for the development of consciousness from the very beginning we can
assume that in this age occurs and develops the image of the other, as a
condition and the mechanism of self-perception and identity. For the formation
of identity in adolescence age is no other way, the image of
"foreign" becomes an important point.
The
concept of the "image of someone else" is often used in the
psychological literature as the closest in meaning to the concept of
"enemy image". The phrase "enemy image" is quite common,
including those in the literature, scientific,but to date it remains
descriptive and has more the nature of metaphor than of scientific concepts.
However, the analysis of concepts "Foreign" and "enemy
image" as a rule, they are used as the antipode the notion of
"your." However, as stressed by many authors, "the image of
someone else's" and "enemy image" are often the basis for
intolerant (LS Vasil'ev, AL Ryabinin, Dzyaloshinskii IM) and the wrongful
conduct. As follows from the legal and psychological literature, often
"Foreign" and especially his perception of a teenager is the main motive for the illegal actions teenager [2]. Probably because of the teenagers are often "on the other
side" of normative behavior and often in the dock. Thus, there is a
contradiction, which consists in the fact that, on the one hand, the
"image of the stranger" helps teenagers understand themselves, and on
the other hand, can become a psychological basis for the wrongful conduct. The
resolution of this controversy is possible if we assume that the tolerance /
intolerance in the aggregate are the characteristics of the adolescent period
of development. Proof of this hypothesis can be a number of facts, in
particular, obtained in our empirical study and identified in the analysis of
the psychological literature.
So, it was found that tolerance /
intolerance have different content depending on the psychological age of the
subject and thus have different meanings for personal development. For
teenagers, for example, the quality of tolerance/ intolerance, as noted, are
characteristic of the age. At the same tolerance teenagers
and tolerance of an
adult human are fundamentally different psychological significance. If the
adult is understood that Tolerance is good, and intolerance, bad for a teenager
is the assertion is debatable. In other words, if the adults psychologically
oriented social norm for understanding that to be tolerated well, even though
the actual characteristics others, the young in its development and perception
of the world respectively, are oriented to a specific classification of people.
In this sense, is always someone for them to "their and some
"other". Thus, to be tolerant for a teenager, then what is to go
against logic development of his mind and personality.
Thirst for teenagers to join in a
variety of companies suggests that those who are not part of them are
"strangers." The study Elkonin and TV Dragunova [4] has shown that
teenagers spend all the time in the team peers and that these groups are very
mobile. Similar data were obtained in studies of D. Feldstein, M. R. Ginsburg,
and others. That there is a need to communicate with peers serves as
characteristic of this age. We can say that in these communities Teen gets an
opportunity to reflect on and understand someone aspect of his behavior and
activities (the one under which formed one or another company). Thus, for a
teenager almost every moment of his life is a "foreign", which often
begins to play the role of "enemy."
This allows us to do, seems to be an
important conclusion, concerning the fact that a stranger or even an enemy is a
prerequisite for mental and personality development in adolescence, for to self
- determination. However, the need to pay attention to the fact that these
concepts does not become the basis for the development of antisocial
personality.
From
our point of view, this indicates that the applicationthe concept of tolerance
to the analysis of personality traits and behavior of adolescents has certain
limitations. These limitations are of two kinds. If the first due to the fact
that this concept eliminates the concept of "its" from the analysis
of adolescent behavior and activity, the latter relate to psychological
characteristics of adolescents who testify that the identity of a teenager
fundamentally intolerant.
There is reason to say
that the concept of tolerance in its entirety characterizes only the identity
of an adult. To date, the Despite a variety of research in the field of
tolerance, yet identify the mechanisms that contribute to the formation of a
tolerant person, there are no clear signs of tolerance in the different
manifestations of psychological age, are not defined terms of the development
of tolerance.
In addition, a review of existing
concepts of tolerance can be seen that the term includes only the ratio of
"Alien" is actually ignoring the problem of perception of
"their" and thus himself. It also introduces limitations in the
analysis of behavior in adolescents under the concept of tolerance. For teens,
it is very important relationship with "their". These
"own", according to a teenager like him.
This, from our point of
view, the restrictions also makes the analysis of behavior in adolescents under
the concept of tolerance. Theoretical analysis of the problem of tolerance /
intolerance, carried out in the literature, and empirical data of our study
allow to state that intolerance during adolescence is closely related to tolerance.
In this case,
On the one hand, this
relationship is an objective which assumes their existence and the realization
of unity (in the case of normal development). At same time, on the other hand,
the relationship of tolerance and intolerance subjective. In other words,
defining a "foreign" or even "the enemy", a teenager at the
outset identify themselves with "their".
Thus, the image of the
"alien" in terms of a teenager is opposite to him. The negative
characteristics attributed to "someone else", rejected by him. If the
"foreign" is characterized, for example, mean, no matter how
objective this characteristic, "Their" and therefore he must have a
teenager characteristics opposite of avarice. Thus was born the concept of
substantive content "Their" growing into self-identity. Of course,
the development of the concept of "their" contribute to many factors,
but it's hard to deny that it is due to "other", the concept of
"their" not only enriched, but also represents a special significance
and value to the individual.
All
the above allows, in our view, to formulate the following hypothetical
situation regarding features of tolerance in adolescence. Personality
development at teenager’s age involves the formation of such personal
characteristics that can be
provisionally designated
as tolerance / intolerance. They are phenomenological similar, but have a
different psychological nature than their counterparts in the adult. These
characteristics are associated with the emergence of a meaningful and arbitrary
division between "us - them". The boundaries between the
"Their" and "strangers" are mobile and volatile, constantly
changing and the grounds on which these or other subjects related to
"his" or "stranger."
In this sense, the emerging dichotomy between "us - strangers,"
"we - they" being essential for the development of self-consciousness
and "I-concept" personality, it becomes necessary psychological
condition of formation personality as tolerant or intolerant. In other words,
the selected features of the mental and personal development of adolescence can
be the basis for the development of tolerance, and may promote intolerance. We
conducted an empirical study of the peculiarities of different categories of
adolescent aggression confirms this suggestion. We began the study of tolerance
of intolerance in adolescents with aggressive, since it is this characteristic,
according to many researchers, is an integral feature of the intolerant person
[3].
However,
these results allow us to speak more about other regularities in the
development of adolescents with different levels of socialization. Thus according to the analysis of the results can
be done a number of important findings that characterize the aggressiveness of
offenders. The strength of motivational tendencies toward aggression and
confront the power of motivational trend towards a positive communication with
young offenders were the same as that of students in regular schools in Moscow.
By itself, a motivational tendency to aggression is not sufficient factor for
the manifestation of destructive aggression. Destructive aggression offenders
dictated by fear of social interaction, due to the lack of mechanisms of social
interaction, characteristic of normal adolescents. A low social adaptability
offender is characterized not only destructive aggression, but also the desire
to avoid social interaction.
Thus, we can say that the productive activities of those
offenders who have the characteristics of intolerance, characterized by weak
orientation in the objective world. In addition, it can be effectively carried
out by them only on familiar material. At the same time findings suggest that
this feature of the subject does not always lead to high levels of aggression.
The
data obtained allowed us to move on to the next stage of the study of tolerance
/ intolerance in adolescence – Analysis features of perception "of its own
- alien" law-abiding teenagers and young offenders. It turned out that the
"foreign" for teens offenders - is not just a person who does not like
them themselves, not just a follower of a different culture, but an active
subject, from which the real threat. Many of these young people their offenses
attributed to the fact that if they do not hit, do not beat, etc., then the
same fate would have waited for themselves. "Normal" as adolescents
shows that the "foreign" to them - a man they did not like. From such
a "foreign" threat does not come, it can be appreciated and
positively, and, most importantly, he not deprived of the opportunity to move into
the category of "their".
Of
considerable interest, in our view, represent data that adolescent offenders
have problems with the knowledge itself and their own. The empirical data that
suggests that offenders have difficulty with the "group consciousness",
"the emergence of a sense of "we "," allocation of a
certain group," etc. They are, in contrast to their law-abiding
peer-oriented friends group, team and collective consciousness, much more
individualistic - they have almost no friends, and companies where they spend
their time, are of little value to them and quickly fall apart.
These
data also show some of the difficulties in the awareness of "their"
and "them" as a law-abiding and delinquent adolescents. Thus, when we
conduct an empirical study on "Psychological specificity intolerant
individual" one teenager refused to talk about his way of
"foreign". To the question: "If such a man, whom you could name
your enemy? » He replied that he could not be enemies, because he is a youth
organization. And any attempt to come up with "the enemy" or at least "a man with whom would have been bad relations"
with success failed. Then an attempt was made to determine whether there are
guys that are bad for the organization, which is this teenager. After a short conversation,
we were convinced that it is "intolerantly" become a kind of way
"foreign" for the teenager [4].
Thus,
the empirical evidence from, on the one hand, a low level of productive
activity in adolescents offenders, and on the other hand, indicate a particular
perception of "us" and "alien" teenagers with deviant
behavior. In our
view, these seemingly
different characteristics are the expression of certain general laws.
It is known that
productive activity is a type of object-oriented activity that appears during
ontogenesis. At the same time, as follows from the accumulated data in
psychology, hyperplasia of someone or some of the quality of the subject leads
to the fact that he compensates for this in other types of activity. Practical
results (experimental and observational studies) can be interpreted in the
sense that the offenders are young people to other people, to some extent as
the objects and exercise in relation to them subject activity. Evidence of this
is found in many, including those already mentioned the facts. So, first, the
young offenders prefer, like their legitimate counterparts, stay in groups and
companies, however, unlike the latter, they do not have stable attachment and
relationship with each other. Often, they betray each other at first sign of
danger, change the attitude toward "close friend" as soon as the
change of ownership hydrated or his social status in the group, etc. Second,
they do not just perceive aggressive "foreign", although as it turned
out was not always having high levels of aggression, and he often credited with
the characteristics and behaviors, which he did not. In other words, they give
foreign properties regardless of the actual state of affairs. Thirdly, and this
can be seen in several television programs, adolescent offenders, when asked to
tell about their crimes and to show how They arrived with the victim, they are
very naturalistic demonstrate their actions and talk about them as if we had
acted not from a living person, but with an inanimate object.
These
data and suggests require further experimental investigation, but now You can
make a provision that for the full development in adolescence and the growth of
self-determination must be the emergence of the phenomenon of separation of
"us" and "them". Under certain conditions, this separation
can be a psychological basis for the emergence of intolerant person. The study
of these conditions is necessary both in terms of developing prevention
measures and crime prevention, and in to create conditions for full development
of a tolerant person.
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