The accelerated pace of social development and a speed of changes in general affecting the production sphere require greater involvement and higher work efficiency. The majority of workers of modern society are employees performing in "person-to-person” system. This category includes social and caring professions as well and other professions requiring interaction with people. Employees of the penal system are in this domain as well. They are subject to maximum emotional "burnout" being under the complex conditions and permanent contact with criminally infected persons. To preserve the personality and health of an employee, it is necessary to know various specific risk factors that may contribute to the development of such states as emotional “burnout”.

The focus of attention of the authors is the consideration of information security of children and adolescents as the object of social representations. Discusses the need for the theory of social representations to develop prophylactic and preventive programs in the field of information security of children and adolescents, in particular, says that the effectiveness of prevention and preventive programs is determined by how this information is understood by the target group, through what filters it passes. Briefly outlines the main provisions of the theory of social representations, discusses the functions of social representations, the mechanism of action ideas. Analyzed in a few studies, the focus of which was the presentation on new technologies, particularly mobile phones and the Internet. Presents the results of a series of studies devoted to the study of information security of children and adolescents, including the results of the first part of a research project dedicated to the analysis of how parents and teachers understand information security and what strategies to protect children and adolescents from dangerous information they are ready to use.

The article presents data from an empirical study of the features for age perception in pedophilia (ICD-10) / pedophilic disorder (ICD-11). We consider a phenomenon of individuals with pedophilia what often want to be like children or feel themselves like them. An analytical review of the literature on the subjective perception of age and age identity is provided. The question is discussed on how the chronological assessment of the live time is transformed into a subjective assessment of one's own age, as well as the mechanisms underlying such kind of transformation (in particular, successful or unsuccessful experience of socialization). Three groups of individuals are compared: persons accused of sexual crimes with diagnosis of pedophilia (21 examinees), without such a diagnosis (21 examinees) and 45 examinees of the control group. All of them completed the test on “Age Identity”, “Color Test of Affective Tones” and “Coding”. According to the results the actual and ideal self-image in pedophilia is more infantile and similar to the image of a child. Obtained data indicate the immaturity of sexual sphere in examinees with pedophilia, they perceive sexuality in communicative and playing context.

The article presents the first part of the work devoted to the study of ordinary representations of parents and teachers about information security of children and adolescents. It is about addressing the problem of information security of children and adolescents, discuss the effects of observing violence in the mass media on the subsequent behaviour of viewers, refers to directing television roles on the example of transfer schemes by S. Milgram in the context of television game (experiment J. L. Beauvois with colleagues). This paper examines the impact on users has the Internet, discusses the main directions of action in relation to ensuring information security of children and adolescents, focusing on psychological aspects of the concept of information security of children, demonstrates the importance of studying "naive theories" that govern the actions aimed at ensuring information security of children. The authors explain the prospect of studying problems of information security of children in the framework of the theory of social representations.

The article discusses ways in-depth analysis of self-image in individuals with disorders of sexual identity, applied for examination of disputable sexual States. The comparative analysis of the image I, the specifics of the gender role internalization on emotional and logical level. Examples of the four different nosological groups conducted a study of the Central concepts of identity – image of "I'm real" and image "I am perfect". With the help of additional factors in the assessment are the attempt to formalize the data conduct of differentiatie between issues of sexual identity and problems of integrative identity that affect including sexual identity, as well as for a more accurate assessment of possible development of sexual identity and of belonging to a particular type of violations of identity. The study presents an attempt to identify the psychological characteristics of gender identity and to identify possible predictive criterion – the criterion of adaptability. Objective data are complemented by attempts to explicitate intuitive experience and make it available for an objective assessment during examination of the disputable sexual States. The results can be used by specialists in various fields, first and foremost, clinical psychologists, involved in conducting surveys of individuals with FIR in the examination of disputable sexual states.