RAZLIKE I SLIČNOSTI NA SKALI EMOCIONALNE NESTABILNOSTI ADOLESCENATA SRBIJE I CRNE GORE
DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES ON THE EMOTIONAL INSTABILITY SCALE OF ADOLESCENTS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

Summary/Abstract: In this research, the Scale of Emotional Instability with 18 items, specially constructed for the research, was applied for the first time on appropriate samples of 2803 adolescents from Serbia and 1123 from Montenegro through an electronic survey. Depressive-anxiety symptoms dominate, typical for the adolescent period (social withdrawal, mood swings, tension, depression, lethargy, propensity for unreasonable quarrels). Warimax factor analysis statistics showed good metric properties of the Scale. Three factors stood out, the first of which is markedly stronger than the other two. The first factor is characterized by depressive neurotic reactions due to parental misunderstanding and emotional rejection of adolescents, which only confirmed the previous description of the Scale. The second factor is the factor of an ambivalent attitude towards school and learning, while the third factor includes phenomena that indicate difficult forms of deviant behavior. Adolescents from Montenegro are going through a more severe adolescent crisis than in Serbia, characterized by depression, disorientation, sudden mood swings, suicidal ideas, inability to control emotions and feelings, feelings of misunderstanding, and even emotional rejection by parents. One of the key risk factors is inadequate emotional connections between adolescents and parents of the same sex, which is especially discussed in the paper.

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