Students' social representations of risks in interacting with the Internet: cross-cultural aspect (Russia, Brazil, Romania)

Problem and purpose. Along with the obvious benefits, digitalization of society carries its own risks. At same time, in modern psychology there is not enough information about differences representations such risks different cultures. The purpose article to empirically verify assumption dependence risk perceptions on socio-cultural context. Methodology. empirical part study was carried out through questionnaires, collected universities three countries during academic scientific visits (Russia: n = 112, Romania: 94, Brazil: 98) drafting evaluation reports social (Abric coefficient). During translation we used focus group method psychodiagnostic tools questionnaires (S.V. Kudrya). Results. data obtained showed that depend general culture a given country, legislation field Internet security, as well duration experience interaction networks Internet. Thus, the" core " representation Russian Romanian students results risky behavior are unproductive environment (TCP-92); demonstration indifference (TCP-78) or aggressiveness (TCP-75), for Brazilian sample, psychological affliction more typical (TCP-65). In addition, lexical-semantic analysis terms concepts riskology survey presence semantic cross-cultural their understanding. Discussion conclusion. allow us say influenced by legislative peculiarities: clear difference between “core” “periphery” both dimension within country samples. lexico-semantic risk-generating behavioral patterns ideas cultural (linguistic) this area need only adaptation verification diagnostic tools, but also clarifying meaning various factors verbal plan.