Types of Network Groups and Psychological Characteristics of their Members

The work is devoted to the analysis of issues of personality formation in the conditions of belonging to a group community, the influence of the online environment on the personality and network groups in the modern online environment. An empirical study was conducted, in which a total of 193 individuals took part, who were involved through various online platforms: social networks, messengers, forums, gaming resources, educational platforms, etc. On the basis of the study, the attitude of network group participants to the online communities in which they are located was studied; their psychological characteristics were analyzed; determined the peculiarities of the psychological characteristics of the participants of network groups, depending on the attitude to the online communities in which they are located; typical profiles of the subjects' attitudes towards network groups were revealed.