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Family Cohesion and Well-being of Urban and Rural Adolescents
Petar Bezinović
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Kristina Manestar
; Centar za socijalnu skrb, Senj, Hrvatska
Zrinka Ristić Dedić
; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper discusses family cohesion in rural and urban families, that is analysed based on the results of survey research conducted on the
proportional sample of high school students (4 865 adolescents) from
Primorsko-goranska, Ličko-senjska and Dubrovačko-neretvanska counties. The research used the adopted Scale of family rituals and family activities (Compan et al, 2002.) The results indicate significant
differences in some forms of family interaction in rural and urban families, and a somewhat different perception of family cohesion of
girls and boys. Family trips, picnics and shopping are characteristic of
the urban family interaction, while for the rural family dominant
patterns of family interaction are going to church together, having meals together, spending holidays together and completing school work. Level analyses of the discriminative function shows that girls
differ from their male counterparts at the statistically significant level
in ten out of twelve examined forms of family interaction: for girls going shopping and for walks with one of the parents are characteristic, while for boys it is going to sport events or playing sports. The relation of family cohesion and well-being of urban and rural adolescents was also examined. It reinforced that family cohesion is strongly determined with well-being of adolescents, which is in general more evident in girls than it is in boys. Poor family communication has a significantly greater negative effect on adolescents' well-being in rural areas than in those from urban areas
and it indicates that quality of family communication is probably more
important protective factor for functioning of adolescents' personality
from rural areas than for their counterparts in urban areas. There were however no global significant differences found in well-being of
urban and rural youth, since interaction effect of rural-urban or gender factor is not statistically significant.
Ključne riječi
family cohesion; well-being; adolescence; rural-urban dichotomy
Hrčak ID:
33493
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Datum izdavanja:
12.3.2009.
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