FACTORS INFLUENCING THE MOTIVATION OF THE YOUTH EXTREMIST BEHAVIOUR

Extremism has become a noticeable phenomenon in the life of our state and the whole world. Today, extremist activity is no longer sporadic, but organized, focused and planned. It creates a real threat to the life of the state, its constitutional foundations, public safety and order. Therefore, special attention to the problem of terrorism is paid in the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation until 2020 [1]. Young people, due to incompleteness of the processes of personal, social and spiritual socialization, worldview instability, insufficient social and psychological maturity, social maximalism and social protest, are most easily engaged in extremist activities. And it is especially sad, since the youth as the most active part of the country’s population could direct this activity towards solving national importance problems. The reason for this, however banal it may sound, are the same social and economic problems that give rise to the ideas of group inequality in the minds of people and entail deformation of social and spiritual life of society. In order to understand the origin of extremist behaviour and to identify ways to combat it, it is necessary to understand its subjective side, namely the motives that underlie extremist activity and aggressive behaviour.

экстремизм, агрессия, экстремистское поведение, мотивация, внутренние движущие силы