Проблеми младих у Cрбији: Oдрастање у условима друштвене кризе
Problems of Serbian Youth: Growing Up within the Context of Social Crisis

Summary/Abstract: Objective of this research was to identify problems that young people in Serbia have been dealing with, also how they perceive the weight of these problems and whether there are the gender, age, school type and regional differences in their perception of problems. We were also interested to find out if problems typical of adolescence, as well as problems characterizing some global social changes are intensified within the context of prolonged social crisis and transition. Research was conducted in October 2007, on a sample of 2419 young people, stratified by the region (Belgrade, North, Central and South Serbia), age (first to fourth grade of secondary school) and school type (gymnasium, three years and four years vocational schools). An original questionnaire, constructed for this research, was applied. Results have shown that the majority of investigated problems have not been perceived as particularly big or harmful ones. Young people are most concerned with three problems (meaning that one third or more of youngsters find them to be big or relatively big ones): the lack of interesting places to go out (46%), the lack of time for leisure activities (41%) and boredom (35%). Surpassingly few youngster reported to have bigger problems with their parents (22%) or peers (14%). Girls and senior high school students systematically perceive almost all problems as harder ones. We could conclude that the gained picture was not gloomy, as it was expected, which could probably be attributed to joy, energy and optimism of these young people in this life span period.

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