Specifics of the Relationships between Maladaptive Personality Subordination in Virtual Environment with Individual and Personal Characteristics in Young People

The study was conducted to identify the links between maladaptive personality subordination in virtual environment, and individual and personality traits in young people. It involved 646 people aged 14 to 40. The psychodiagnostic toolkit consisted of a questionnaire "The level and types of maladaptive subordination of personality in virtual environment" by T.V. Belykh, E.B. Knyazev, A.A. Sharov, V.V. Belykh; a questionnaire of youth confidence in the virtual environment by T.V. Belykh, E.B. Knyazev, A.A. Sharov, V.V. Belykh; a test to determine the degree of suggestibility by E. Merzlyakova; questionnaire “Study of the psychological structure of temperament” by B.N. Smirnov; a measure of the level of impulsivity by V.A. Losenkov; questionnaire “Index of virtualization of personality of an Internet user of social services” by E.O. Rasina; Questionnaire for the diagnosis of irrational attitudes by A. Ellis; questionnaire “Diagnosis of subjectivity” by E.N. Volkova. Statistical analysis of the data was performed using the R programming language (ver. 4.3.3) in the RStudio IDE (2025.05.0 + 496). Multivariate unidimensional and multidimensional PERMANOVA analyses were performed. Point-biserial correlation, Spearman rank correlation, and the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test were used for independent samples (with Holm-Bonferroni correction for p-values), and nonparametric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) was performed. Maladaptive subordination in a virtual environment has specific connections with both individual characteristics (gender, age, and temperament) and personality traits that reflect the qualitative features of subjectivity, irrational attitudes, the degree of involvement in virtual interactions, and trust in information, its source, and the process of virtual communication. The obtained data reveal the presence of linear and probabilistic, non-linear connections in the structure of individual and personal properties in young people who are prone to displaying maladaptive submissiveness in situations of virtual interpersonal interaction, as well as the nature of these connections depending on gender and the type of maladaptive submissiveness formed

Big Five personality traits · Computer-assisted web interviewing · Impulsivity · Personality · Psychometrics · Virtual machine · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies · Psycholinguistics and Behavioral Studies · Psychological Treatments and Assessments