Personal Predictors of Students’ Normative Informational Behavior

The article is devoted to the study of personal predictors of the normative strategies of students’ informational behavior. The article reveals the relevance of the study, analyzes the concept of “digital environment”, reflects the features of the modern digital environment and the opportunities that it represents. The types of digital behavior are shown – prosocial (normative) and antisocial (risky). The effects of positive informational behavior, the possibility of self-presentation in the Internet environment, the features of self-realization in the informational space are analyzed. In the empirical part of the study, authors studied students’ involvement in the Internet environment, the ability to live without Internet resources and the ability to control their behavior when using the Internet. The repertoire of strategies of informational behavior is studied, their degree of expression is shown. Correlations between normative strategies of informational behavior and personal characteristics have been studied. It has been found that, in general, the normative strategies of information behavior are determined by such personal characteristics as tolerance for uncertainty, openness to new experience and the ability of the individual to psychological intelligence and self-understanding.