Obiteljski i vršnjački doprinos donošenju odluka iz raznih sfera života u adolescenata – kroskulturalna perspektiva
Family and Peer Contribution to Decision Making in Different Aspects of Life for Adolescents – Cross-Cultural Perspective

Summary/Abstract: For the last several years science of psychology is trying to find a way to understand the influence of culture on development, appreciating the processes that happen at the micro level (psychological processes) and processes that happen on the macro level (sociological processes). In that context, the authors emphasize that every culture enables the development of a child within a certain ecological-cultural context. With this research we have tried to compare the contribution of family and peers in decision making in different aspects of life in two countries: Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For that purpose we have conducted a research throughout the two groups of adolescents: group of adolescents from Republic of Croatia and group of adolescents from Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the purpose of establishing the influence of family and peers on decisions that adolescents make in different aspects of their lives (entertainment, moral values) with respect to culture differences (Republic of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina). The obtained results point to the conclusion of different strengths of influence of parents and peers to decision making between the adolescents in two cultures, and they are interpreted within the ecological theory.

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