Psychological Problems of Adolescents in Real and Virtual Environments: Questionnaire Standardization

The need to create a questionnaire to study the psychological problems of adolescents in real and virtual environments arose since previously created and available methods in this sphere did not consider the influence of the virtual environment as a factor of socialization. The article reveals the continuity in the development of methodological tools for the study of psychological problems of adolescents and shows the novelty of the new questionnaire. The questionnaire was created and standardized during five consecutive stages (collection of primary empirical material, procedures of linguistic and frequency analysis, assessment of reliability, validity, double factorization, determination of age norms). 566 teenagers aged 13-17 years took part in standardization. The result of this work is a new psychodiagnostic tool that allows to determine the degree of adolescents’ concern with psychological problems, both in real life and in connection with their immersion in the Internet environment.