Vakulich T. Psychological factors of preventing Internet-addiction of teenagers.

Dissertation is dedicated to the analysis of factors of preventing Internet-addiction of teenagers. The dissertation outlines main directions and approaches to studying psychological peculiarities of Internet-addiction in the world and Ukrainian science. It discloses correlation of the essence of Internet-addictiveness and Internet-addictive behaviour (IAB), outlines main criteria and factors which impact its formation (psychological, social-psychological, and social). The dissertation studies the problem of psychological peculiarities of the display of teenagers' Internet-addictive behaviour in the age aspect, namely in the adolescent age, as a crucial period of generating IAB. It is proved that intensity of demonstration of Internet-addictive behaviour (IAB) depends on individual-psychological (individual peculiarities of adolescent age) and micro social (psychological difficulties and complications generated by the close social environment) factors, which don't appear separately from each other, butperform in interconnections and interdependence. Outlined are main types of teenagers' behaviour in the Internet, comprising: obsessive-searching type, compensatory type, emotion-dependent type, communicative type, cyber-sexual type. Psychological conditions and directions of effective preventing of generation of Internet-addiction in adolescence age are defined in the paper. Results of the experiment persuadingly proved expediency and effectiveness of the programme of preventing Internet-addictive behaviour of teenagers.