Satisfaction with Family Life in the Transformation Conditions of Serbian Society
Satisfaction with Family Life in the Transformation Conditions of Serbian Society

Summary/Abstract: This research is rather specific, due to the fact it is a part of a broader project entitled Young Family at the Threshold of 21st Century, which is simultaneously being carried out by Moscow State Social University, with the identical survey questionnaire used. Comparative results will be the topic of a separate study. In this paper, we studied the most important characteristics of the way of life of young families in eleven towns of Central Serbia, in the conditions of the transformation of Serbian society, and then we considered how much marital partners were satisfied with their family life, and also what determined such satisfaction. The highest correlation is shown in the interrelation between material welfare, property and conditions of living, as indicators of social-economic condition, and satisfaction with family life, as a social-psychological category. Results have shown that in the omnipresent pauperization the family survives though pressured by the need for survival; it becomes closed in its necessary and imposed dependence, becomes idealized as the supreme value, and satisfaction with family life grows with the family's ability to satisfy existential needs.

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