Bullying Experience As Factor To Understand Motivation Of Interpersonal Interaction In Adolescence

Abstract

The study is aimed to analyze the role of bullying experience to understand the motivation of interpersonal interaction in adolescence. Adolescence as the period of self-determination requires active and numerous interaction and communication with other people, especially peers, as the source of psychological development. The experience of social interaction can be very different and includes potential risks for teenagers. Bullying behavior is one of the dangerous forms of social interaction in adolescence. We analyzed the peculiarities of understanding the bullying behavior motivation by adolescents with different experience in bullying. We used the cinema material due to the fact that video content is more vivid and emotionally close to the spectator. 149 adolescents from several schools took part in the investigation. The method included the film review and psychosemantic technique called 'behavior motives attribution'. Subjects were divided into several groups according to the bullying experience in their real life. After the film review the most emotional episodes were defined. The specific understanding of motivation of antihero by adolescents with different experience of bullying in real life was revealed.