Special aspects of hedonism experience in modern juvenile individuals’ life: existential-phenomenological research

Modern technological and socio-economic conditions provide people with more and more opportunities for a comfortable and enjoyable life. The proliferation of gadgets, entertainment content, food delivery services and goods creates the illusion of ease of existence, the opportunity to have fun and satisfy your desires without much effort. Modern youth, who grew up in conditions of wide access to various sources of pleasure and comfort, are especially susceptible to such influence. This creates the illusion of being able to lead a life filled with satisfying your own diverse desires and having a pleasant time. The system of personal-existential fundamental motivations, which makes it possible to resist the temptation of excessive hedonism, may not be mature enough in adolescence, which creates risks of deficits in the value-semantic sphere of personality. The spread of comfortable living conditions in modern consumer society and the active demand for a hedonistic lifestyle among young people makes the scientific understanding of the phenomenon of hedonism and its manifestations in the value-semantic sphere of personality relevant. On the one hand, technological progress, mass culture and the market economy provide more and more opportunities to meet material needs and obtain pleasure. On the other hand, excessive hedonism carries risks of spiritual degradation of the individual and loss of higher values.