Representation About Objects Of Destruction And Adults’ Use Of Violence Against Them

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of developing a general mechanism for adults' destructive behavior. The purpose of the research is to study the relationship between the representation of intra-, inter-and metapersonal objects of destructive impact and also the evaluation of the contribution of violence as a means of implementing destructiveness. The empirical hypotheses are: a) the presence of relations between the objects of destructive influence and b) the influence of the concept of violence on the specification of the destruction object. The study is carried out through questionnaires and takes into account 188 adults (age: M = 33.7, SD = 4.21, gender -46% male, 52% female).The first hypothesis is not confirmed: representations of destruction objects are not conjugate with one another, which indicates the isolated and non-contiguous nature of adults' destructive actions and does not conform to the data of studies of destructive behavior of teenagers and youth groups. The second hypothesis supported the idea that violence concretizes representations about objects of destruction.Regardless of the type of violence, its level contributes to the strengthening of ideas about the destroyed object. The obtained results show the prospects for developing the concept of a general mechanism of destructive behavior from the point of view of the psychological behavior theory.