Аннотации:
The aim of the present reasearch is to expose a psychological profile of children from children?s homes and social orphanages prone to computer dependency. 302 teenagers at the age from 11 to 16 from children?s homes and social orphanages of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Russian Federation, took part in the empirical research, 80 of them were identified by the selected methods as computer dependent. Besides, there were recruited 30 educators, social workers and teachers of these institutions.
There has been applied the complex of diagnostic techniques to diagnose the level of teenagers? computer dependency, to study their personal qualities and specific character of social intelligence, social and psychological adaptation, interpersonal relations, value-motivational, communicative and emotional spheres, self-assessment.
On the basis of the results obtained by the research there has been defined a psychological profile of inclined to computer dependency teenagers brought up in children