Socialization of personality in the conditions of digitalization

The purpose of the study is to describe the features of socialization in the digital space using the example of changes in the behavior of children, adolescents, high school students and young people. The study sample is represented by adolescents with socialization disorders (risk-taking, aggressive, self-aggressive, with deviant behavior, ostracized). The research methods are: a questionnaire in relation to risk, a survey on the topic of hobbies and communication on the Internet. We examined the characteristics of two social groups of adolescents studying in general education organizations - the cadet corps and a regular secondary school.The main results made it possible to identify the attitude of adolescents towards risk, the characteristics of the needs of adolescents of two social groups: the need for communication, interaction with peers, the need for respect and recognition, the need to meet expectations. The results showed that negative manifestations of need satisfaction are changes in behavior: constant communication on the Internet with strangers, imposing communication with negative content on peers in chat rooms, inviting a friend to visit diff erent sites, etc. Teenagers from general education organizations show themselves to be more confi dent Internet users. Thus, in the modern world there is a transformation of traditional institutions of socialization (family and educational organizations). The decrease in their infl uence on adolescents is compensated by the growing infl uence of mass communications, in which the Internet plays a key role, which leads to a change in the personality of adolescents in the context of digitalization.