Features of social behaviour of teenagers as active users of educational platforms

Statement of the problem. Modern educational platforms have become an integral part of learning, providing a safe space for communication and coordination of the activities of participants in the pedagogical process. However, at the moment, insufficient attention has been paid to the study of educational platforms due to the similarity with social products of Internet communications, which necessitates a more detailed study of this issue. The purpose of the article is to identify the relationship between Internet communications and manifestations of social behaviour of adolescents belonging to a group of users with high activity level. The research methodology is based on scientific concepts that reveal the individual psychological characteristics of Internet users in the works of O.N. Arestova, E.P. Belinskaya, A.E. Voiskunsky, N.N. Zhokhova, O.V. Smyslovaya, approaches to studying the nature of social behavior of Russian (L.S. Vygotsky, N.N. Zhokhova, E.E. Kravtsova, D.B. Elkonin) and Western (G. Getper, E.F. Zeer, J. Rotter) scientists. The following methods were selected for the implementation of the study: a questionnaire of digital behaviour (author’s methodology), a test for demonstrativeness by O.S. Posypanova; a scale of social desirability by D. Crown, D. Marlowe; M. Kuhn’s ‘Who am I?’ technique, improved by T.V. Rumyantseva, J. Locus’ control test. Rotter’s questionnaire on behavioral reactions (author’s methodology), a questionnaire on typical social behaviour. The survey involved teenagers aged 15 to 17 years old who are actively involved in using the Spherum application. Research results. The article focuses on the issue of preference of Internet communication to real communication among adolescents and the relationship with markers of social behaviour, focusing on the identified behaviours and types of communication. In this study, firstly, the markers of social behaviour that are most common in the adolescent environment were identified, secondly, the analysis of the relationship between the choice of the educational platform functionality and the characteristics of adolescent social behaviour was carried out, as well as the characteristic features of the behaviour of adolescents who actively use Internet communications based on the Spherum educational platform.