Features of measures to prevent victim behaviour among adolescents in Kazakhstan

Abstract

Relevance. The relevance of the study is due to the need to expand the methods of prevention of victim behaviour, which are taught by future social educators, due to the growing demand for reducing the level of domestic violence in Kazakhstan by helping teenage girls in difficult life situations. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to identify effective methods of preventing victim behaviour in adolescent girls and compile a methodology for preventing the consolidation of the victim component of the personality. Methodology. The leading approach to this problem is the longitudinal research method, which allowed achieving the set goal and evaluating the effectiveness of the developed methodology for preventing victim behaviour. The following methods were also used in the course of the study: testing using the methodology for determining the propensity to victim behaviour, natural experiment, observation, classification, comparative method, system analysis, synthesis, deduction, and analysis of scientific sources. Results. The paper presents the results of a longitudinal study, which showed the effectiveness of the proposed technique at the level of 37.9% for teenage girls with previously identified victimisation. The paper also reveals the individual factors of victim behaviour formation, describes the processes of social and personal activity that directly affect the formation of a person's self-esteem, identifies the features of self-esteem of teenage girls, suggests a number of measures and practices aimed at preventing and reducing victimisation by adjusting self-esteem to a normal level, justifies the choice of proposed measures and practices aimed at to prevent and reduce victim behaviour in the selected category. Conclusions. The materials of the study are of practical value for theorists and practitioners of social pedagogy due to the fact that the developed programme for the prevention of victim behaviour has been tested empirically and has shown its effectiveness when used in working with students of middle and high schools.