Original scientific paper

Young People and Exposure to War

Boris MLAČIĆ
Vlado ŠAKIĆ
Renata FRANC

Abstract

This paper is part of a broader research of psychosocial status
and the quality of life of Croatian youth conducted during 1998.
In the work the correlation between traumatic war experiences of
children and some aspects of their behaviour as adolescents was
analysed on a representative Croatian sample several years after
the war. It has been determined that there is a mild yet statistically
significant correlation between the mentioned sets of variables. A
connection was established between war experiences and milder
forms of risky behaviour as well as between war experiences and
social deviations, whereas the correlation between antisocial behaviour
and drug addiction on the one hand and war experiences
on the other was not statistically significant. Behavioural disorders
are more expressed in the population of adolescents who
were more exposed to traumatic war experiences and in regions
that were directly involved in war conflicts.

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Hrčak ID:

19693

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/19693

Publication date:

30.6.2002.

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