Personal determinants of victimication among juveniles

Introduction: the increased need for viсtimologic prevention and correction, problems of formation of socially adapted personality provide for the relevance of the research into psychological features, factors and mechanisms of manifestation of victimisation of young men and girls. There is no adequately developed system of preventive activities directed on prevention of realisation of victimologic potential of youth. At the same time correctional programmes will serve a reliable lever which will allow a young man to become less vulnerable to action of various external aggressive factors, to create durable life values, to realize fully the abilities, flexibly and effectively work in difficult life situations. Materials and Methods: methods of mathematical statistics, software Statistica 8.0 were used for data processing. Identification and comparison of personality types of selected groups of respondents was carried out with the use of cluster and one-way ANOVA test followed by Duncan's test. Results: the analysis of empirical data of research allowed to give the thorough and developed characteristic to the groups of examinees under study. Discussion and Conclusions: the results of identification of specific personal determinants of victimisation among young people are presented in the article. The cluster analysis of data allowed to make distinction between groups of examinees with various manifestations of a victimologic role (hypervictimologic, average victimologic and low victimologic). Comparison of manifestation degree of personal determinants of victimisation among three groups of examinees was carried out with use of one-way ANOVA test. Distinctions in manifestations of victimisation among representatives of different victimologic types are described. The conclusion that personal determinants of victimisation have a specific manifestation among representatives of different victimologic types is drawn.