Consistency of individual and cultural values as a factor of juvenile safety against bullying at school

Abstract

The results of analysis of mutual compatibility of juveniles' cultural and personal values as a factor of their safety against destructions in educational relations are presented. The hypothesis that matching of stu-dents' values at individual and cultural levels in monocultural educational environment will provide their psy-chological safety against destructions in their relations with peers and teachers has been tested. 187 teenagers (75 boys, 112 girls) aged 14-17 years (M = 15.6, Med= 16, SD-1.04), students of educational organiza-tions with ethno-cultural components in which curricula includes in-depth study of native (for the teenager) languages and culture (Udmurt, Tatar, Russian) participated in the research. Based on clustering all students have been divided into four groups with conditional names: mature (mutual compatibility of values at each level); hedonists (excessive values of pleasure and enjoyment at each level); maximalists (excessive values of individualist values at each level); nihilists (incompatibility of values at each level). As the result of multiple regression analysis it has been stated: 1) values of subject's regulation-Independence, Stimulation (accounts for 26% of the variability) are the factors of psychological safety against destruction in "student-student" ed-ucational relations in all groups; 2) consistent (mutually compatible) individual and cultural values (accounts for 25% of the variability) are the factors of psychological safety against destruction in "student-teacher" ed-ucational relations in all groups.