STRUKTURALNE KARAKTERISTIKE ADOLESCENTNE KRIZE U SRBIJI I CRNOJ GORI
STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADOLESCENT CRISIS IN SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

Summary/Abstract: In this research on a sample of 2705 adolescents from Serbia and 1123 from Montenegro, we tried to examine the structure of the adolescent emotional disorders scale. Scale of emotional disturbances of adolescents consists of 18 statements with answers on a five-point Likert scale. The scale is subjected factor analysis with Warimax rotation. On the first factor with high saturations, items were singled out which describe anxiety, low self-esteem and suicidal ideation due to feelings of emotional rejection and parental neglect. That's why we called this first factor the factor of depressive-neurotic reactions adolescents due to parental misunderstanding. The second factor describes an ambivalent relationship adolescents towards school and learning. The third factor, dominated by the abuse of psychoactive substances, we called suicidal ideas and emotional rejection of adolescents a factor deviant behavior of adolescents. The research results are discussed in context relationship between autonomy, maturation and conflict between adolescents and their parents. In that volume in this regard, the differences between Serbia and Montenegro were also pointed out.

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