Digital literacy as a factor of psychological safety

The article deals with the issue of digital literacy of modern students as a methodological tool for psychological security. The digital field is determined by information distortion and is used to achieve political, economic and other goals, so the issues of psychological security, including digital, need to be worked out in the field of digital educational space. Digital literacy has a complex functional structure. This literacy is based on digital identity, digital skills and abilities, information literacy, which is formed in the process of professional development at the university. The structural components of digital literacy of psychology students are (from the position of professionalization): evaluative digital literacy, analytical and synthetic skill of processing information sources, information resources of society and information culture, personal aspects on the Internet, the main types of information search tasks and algorithms for solving them, negative properties of the Internet, technologies for preparing and formatting results, the scale of orientation in time, the scale of perception of space.