Psychosocial characteristics of football (soccer) fans as the subjects of globalization community

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Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the study of the socio-psychological traits of a personality of a particular community, in such a social movement as that of football fans that constitutes, from our point of view, one type of global community. In the course of empirical research the researchers carried out a comparative analysis of the experimental (football fans) and control groups on indicators of: intellectual level, adaptive capacity, characteristics of interpersonal relationships, level of aggression and latent extremism, whose results show a statistically significant differences in all these parameters between the two study groups. The representatives of the subculture of football fans are characterized by: medium to low levels of nonverbal intelligence, poor family relations, a tendency toward passivity and dependency in interpersonal interaction, along with hostility and aggression, the inability to manage their feelings, social tension and contentiousness.

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Keywords: global community, psycho-social characteristics of personality, precondition of the occurrence of the individual in the community, community as an environment of personality development

Journal rubric: Social Psychology

Article type: scientific article

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For citation: Skvortsova, E.V. (2011). Psychosocial characteristics of football (soccer) fans as the subjects of globalization community . Experimental Psychology (Russia), 4(2), 79–87. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/exppsy/archive/2011_n2/42016 (viewed: 02.07.2025)

© Skvortsova E.V., 2011

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Elena V. Skvortsova, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Cand. Sci. in Psychology, Associate Professor, First Vice-Chancellor, Zhukovsky Municipal Institute, Russian Federation, e-mail: eskvortsova@bk.ru

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