THE ROLE OF FAMILY IN DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY RESILIENCE TO ONLINE INFORMATION RISKS AND MANIPULATIVE INFLUENCES

Abstract

The mass character of early minors’ access to online services and the growing number of targeted manipulative practices raise the question of which social institution is able to form in a developing personality the resilience to information pressure. School-based and platform protection mechanisms operate at the level of access restriction, whereas the ability to recognize and reject manipulation independently is shaped earlier and in a different environment – within the family. The aim of the work is to determine through which mechanisms family interaction participates in the formation of information resilience and how the restrictive, interpretative and value components of this participation relate to one another. The study draws on structural-functional and comparative analysis, on the systematization of approaches developed in the national psychology of the family, and on conceptual modelling; the empirical background is provided by the current regulatory framework for protecting children in the information sphere and by published data on the digital behaviour of Russian minors. A three-circuit model of family mediation is proposed, in which the regulatory, interpretative and identity-value circuits are responsible for different levels of resilience – from technical shielding to value autonomy of judgement. Shifting the emphasis from access control to the joint interpretation of content changes the outcome from situational protection to a transferable skill of resisting manipulation. Personality resilience to online influence develops not as a sum of prohibitions but as a derivative of the quality of intra-family communication and the consistency of the transmitted value supports.