Informational socialization in adolescents: experience of using social networks and psychological well-being

Abstract

Features of using social networks by teenagers and young adults are discussed; social-psychological consequences of such communication and their influence on the process of socialization in adolescents as a whole are analyzed. The results of empirical studies aimed at examination of relationship between parameters of psychological well-being and experience of communication in social networks are presented. It is noted that active inclusion of modern youth into informational space neutralizes a part of traditional features of adolescent socialization and is weakly connected with psychological well-being parameters except for loneliness experience and qualitative characteristics of communication.