Prevention of extremism in the educational environment: gender characteristics of students' propensity to extremist manifestations

the article analyzes the importance and necessity of taking into account the gender characteristics of students in the process of implementing pedagogical prevention programs for extremist manifestations in the educational environment of the university, taking into account the peculiarities of perception and response of students of both sexes to the information they receive, their motivational attitudes, and social stereotypes, which helps to increase the effectiveness of this work. Identification and assessment of gender characteristics of a propensity for extremism and dispositions of violent extremism in university students were carried out using the following diagnostic tools: "Screening Method for Diagnostics of a Propensity for Extremism" by R.V. Kadyrov, T.V. Kapustina, E.V. Sadon, A.S. Elzesser; "Scale of Dispositions of Violent Extremism" by D.G. Davydov, K.D. Khlomov. Acomparative analysis of the gender characteristics of a propensity for extremism among students was carried out using the Mann-Whitney U-test. The data obtained allowed us to conclude that male and female students differ significantly in these characteristics: male students are more prone to display attitudes related to the justification of force, aggressive behavioral strategies, destructiveness, and protest activity; female students, on the contrary, demonstrate a lesser expression of such dispositions, which corresponds to both psychological characteristics and social expectations associated with their gender role. The obtained results highlight the importance of taking into account the gender factor in the system of preventing extremist manifestations among students in the educational environment of the university: the need for a gender-oriented approach to the prevention of extremist manifestations among young people is determined when implementing programs aimed at developing tolerance, constructive behavior, and harmonizing interpersonal relations in the student environment.

pedagogical prevention, tendency toward extremism, extremist manifestations, students, gender characteristics, educational environment of the university