Features of Social Attitudes and Value Orientations of Youths and Adolescents Prone to Auto-Aggressive Behavior

The relevance of the study is due to the growth of social symptoms of aggression directed forwards the Self, which is especially visible in environment of young people. The presented article is aimed at research relations between value orientations and social attitudes among youths and adolescents prone to auto-aggressive behavior. The methodological basis of the research corresponds to Jadov's dispositional conception of personality. Considerable interrelations between value orientations and social attitudes of youths and adolescents prone to auto-aggressive behavior are discovered. The results of the study may be useful for diagnostics of auto-aggression among young people in educational organizations and for psychological consulting of the cases related to auto-aggressive behavior.