(2018) Science and education, 9-10, 44-51. Odessa.

Svitlana Derevianko,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor,
M. A. Skok Department of General, Developmental and Social Psychology,
Yulia Prymak,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor,
M. A. Skok Department of General, Developmental and Social Psychology,
Iryna Yushchenko,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor,
M. A. Skok Department of General, Developmental and Social Psychology,
National University «Chernihiv Collegium» named after T. G. Shevchenko,
53, Hetmana Polubotka Str., Chernihiv, Ukraine

THE ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE PREVENTION OF YOUTH VICTIMIZATION

The urgency of the research is determined, on the one hand, by the growing scientific interest in the problem of the relationship between victimization and emotional intelligence of young people, and on the other hand, by the lack of research studies taking into account family factors, in particular the sibling status of a young person in the family, and the nature of family relationships. The study is aimed at establishing a relationship between victimization and emotional intelligence of young people with different sibling status (elder child, junior child, single child) by means of an empirical research. It is noted that almost every one of the interviewed young people, during their lives, got into situations of psychological violence, mostly these were situations of communicative interaction with peers. In the student environment, the most common forms of victimization are verbal (mockery, sarcasm) and social (isolation, deliberate silence) ones. It is shown, that for young people with different sibling status, victimization is negatively related to various components of emotional intelligence: the ability to recognize emotions (a group of individuals with a “single child” status), the ability to recognize emotions, empathy, emotional management (“elder children”). Based on the position of the reflexivity of emotional intelligence, the role of emotional intelligence in preventing victimization of young people is defined: the direction of consciousness to analyze one’s victimization - in relation to future events (rationalization), present situations (awareness), past observations (reflection). The realization of victimization prevails in girls with “junior child” and “older child” sibling statuses, and the reflection – in boys, regardless of a sibling status.

victimization, emotional intelligence, youth, sibling status.

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