METHODOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF INDICATOR MODEL OF RESEARCH: RISKS OF INTERNET ADDICTION DISORDER IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The relevance of the research lies in the fact that the World Wide Web actively captures the entire global system of socio-economic and political relations. The number of network users is growing dynamically. The high-end population segments are youth and adolescents; nowadays they manifest both positive and negative trends in their development. One of such trends is the internet addiction disorder, which has been studied actively by the scientific community in recent years. However, the diagnostics of adolescent behavior in networks is studied insufficiently. Therefore, the authors set the task of developing a model that allows the detection of risks of the emergence and further growth of Internet addiction in adolescence. This is the indicator model, which includes a set of indicators (indexes) of a predominantly social nature. The paper also gives a brief overview of the methods of studying non-chemical dependencies and substantiates the approach to the formation of an indicator model for measuring the risks of the emergence of Internet addiction, developed by the Department of Sociology and Social Technologies of the Cherepovets State University. The paper presents the results of a sociological study conducted based on the developed model, which demonstrate the heuristic possibilities of the methodology. The materials of the paper are of significant interest to sociologists, psychologists, teachers and other professionals of humanitarian knowledge.