This study was developed because vandal behavior is an increasing threat in the world. Countries, commercial companies, and individuals experience great damage to property as a result of individual vandal acts. In addition, vandalism threatens not only "tangible assets" but also the cultural and historical heritage of modern humanity. Despite the threatening spread of vandalism, the study of its psychological foundations, including its origins, in the context of individual life courses is in many ways terra incognita. The objective of the present study was to investigate the genesis of vandal behavior and the sociopsychological and individual personality factors in the formation of readiness to destroy public property and the property of others. A comprehensive study of children, adolescents, and young adults (N=1522), as well as of their social environment, revealed mechanisms of the readiness to commit vandal acts that were present since childhood. The study was conducted by examining four age groups: preschoolers (4-6 years), primary school pupils (7-9 years), adolescents (12-15 years), and young adults (17-22 years); the instruments used were specific-age batteries, observation, expert techniques, and questionnaires. We found that the characteristics of parent-child relationship are is the basis for forming the boundaries of the permissible activity of the child; disturbance in the parent-child relationship can lead to the development of forms of vandalism in children. We describe the specificity and intensity of the vandal activity of adolescents and young adults in the context of their environment, and we look at the individual characteristics that promote deviant behavior. Thus, vandal activity is not only a specific characteristic of adolescents and young adults, and it is not always very destructive. Basic vandal activity originates in the early stages of ontogenesis as a result of a deformation in social interaction that becomes fixed and converted into the destructive actions of people trying through this form of activity to understand themselves in social space.

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The study is devoted to the problem of primary school children's vandalism, and particularly its connection with child-parent relationships on the example of Russian families. We define the main predictors of a child's vandal activity on the basis of psychological diagnostics of 228 8-9-yearold children and the assessment of the frequency and specifics of their vandal behaviour by their 228 parents. The children are classified into 3 groups by the extent of their propensity for vandalism. The complex analysis identifies personal and emotional factors influencing the frequency of a child's acts of destruction and transformation of other people's items, devaluation of their own and others' things including those explained by the covert desire to acquire new items. The research findings confirm a significant role of the parent-child relationships in the formation of the child's readiness for vandal behaviour. In particular, we prove that limitation of a child's freedom by excessive strictness and hyper protection aggravates children's propensity for vandalism.Keywords: vandalism, vandal behaviour, attitude to things, child's emotional sphere, child-parent relationships, destructive behaviour at primary school age. Vandalismus bei Kindern: Das Problem der Erziehung und die Interaktion mit der Familie:Zu den wichtigsten Faktoren, die die Herausbildung und die Entwicklung der Persönlichkeit in der Kindheit bestimmen, gehören gewöhnlich Beziehungen, die sich auf die Vorstellung von der externen Welt und von dem Platz, den das Kind darin einnimmt, auswirken. Das Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens war die Ermittlung der sozialen und psychologischen Determinierung von Vandalismus bei Kindern im Grund-und Hauptschulalter. Die Grundannahme war, dass diese einerseits in der

Причина в суженном содержательном понимании большинством представителей молодежи вандализма-он сводится только к не подлежащим сомнению деструктивным действиям. Многие менее очевидные проступки, попадающие под понятие вандализма, не рефлексируются молодыми людьми в таком качестве. Таким образом, сделан вывод о том, что молодежной среде распространен неосознаваемый вандализм: значительная часть молодых людей более или менее регулярно совершает вандальные действия, не воспринимая их как отклонение от норм поведения, и не замечает вандального поведения окружающих. Полученные данные указывают на значительную гибкость и противоречивость представлений молодого населения мегаполиса о вандализме: на уровне стереотипов при абстрагировании от реальности он расценивается как девиация и категорически осуждается; а в повседневности применительно к конкретным ситуациям трактуется как непризнанная норма. Констатируется тенденция постепенного размывания в сознании молодежи табуированности и девиантности вандализма. Практическая значимость. Материалы исследования могут быть использованы для оптимизации воспитательной работы в образовательных учреждениях и повышения эффективности профилактики вандального поведения среди молодежи.

Introduction. The study of financial behaviour and human activity in relation to the management of material resources seems relevant both from the point of view of identifying potential risks of deviant behaviour patterns in this area, and identifying training opportunities for effective management of their own financial resources. The studies of financial behaviour of young people in conjunction with parent-child relationships are poorly presented in modern science and are conducted mainly abroad. Due to the lack of data, the value of the Russian research is great due to the high demand for scientific ideas about such relationship.The aim of the present research is to identify the interdependence between child-parent relationships and the financial activity of young people through the correlation of their models of financial behaviour, as well as the search for determinants of the activity of boys and girls in the system of parenting.Methodology and research methods. An empirical study was conducted on two related samples – youth representatives (young teenagers aged from 14 to 16 years old) and their parents. The total number of study participants was 144 people, of which 87 parents (57 women and 30 men) and 57 youth representatives (29 girls and 28 boys). For data collection, the authors compiled a questionnaire. This questionnaire contains two blocks: an assessment of the financial activity of the family and an assessment of the financial activity of youth. Also, the authors employed the methodology “Family Relationship Analysis” (by E. G Eidemiller, V. V. Yustitskis) and the questionnaire “Parent Behaviour and the Attitude of Children toward It” (by E. Schafer). Processing of the obtained data was carried out in the statistical package IBM SPSS Statistic 19.0. For mathematical and statistical analysis, the methods of descriptive statistics, cluster analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis were used.Results and scientific novelty. As a result of an empirical study, two statistically significant regression models were constructed. According to the obtained models, some features of parent-child relationships really stimulate the financial activity and independence of youth. The groups of financially active and passive boys and girls are identified. It is established that these groups differ only in relation to their own assessments of parental impact by the mother.Practical significance of the work lies in the possibility of using the obtained data to form a scientific understanding of the genesis and mechanisms of formation of a person’s financial activity, as well as in identifying target groups and developing effective methods for teaching financial literacy of the population.