Young people in the Republic of Srpska on transition to adulthood: Attitudes and perceptions
Young people in the Republic of Srpska on transition to adulthood: Attitudes and perceptions

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is the research of attitudes and perceptions of the student population about the transition to adulthood. The transition to adulthood is understood as a multidimensional and multirelational phenomenon that depends on structural and institutional factors, but also on the value system and meaning that young people attach to this phenomenon and implies events that separate youth from adulthood: finishing school, starting a family and having children. For the theoretical framework of the research, we relied on the life-course approach, while the empirical survey alone included 226 students at the University of East Sarajevo. We analyzed the transition to adulthood from two aspects: the first refers to plans related to the transition in the family domain (marriage and parenthood), and the second to the perception of structural and institutional conditions that enable or hinder family transition. The obtained results show that young people highly value marriage, family and parenthood, that most of them plan to form their own family and become parents in the future. Also, young people specified those who provide existential security (permanent job and own apartment) as the basic conditions for a successful family transition, and identified unemployment and low wages as the basic structural shortcomings in society.

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