VRIJEDNOSTI KAO RIZIČNI I ZAŠTITNI ČIMBENICI SOCIJALIZACIJE MLADIH
VALUES AS RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS OF SOCIALIZATION OF THE YOUTH

Summary/Abstract: The article, based on the statistics on young people’s values collected in 1998 and 2002, depicts the hierarchy of young people’s values, the correlation of value orientations with both attitudes and behavior of young people, and the justifiability of the approach to these values and value orientations as to protective and risk factors of socialization of the youth. The specifics on the importance of the values demonstrate that in both the above mentioned years young people, on an average, attached most importance to the self-actualization value orientation, then to the conventional one, while relatively least importance was given to the hedonistic orientation, although all the three orientations were considered as important. Based on the identified connections of the value orientations with the attitudes and behavior of young people, it can be concluded that the perception of the values as protective and risk factors of socialization is justified. In this manner, within the context of the considered attitudes and behaviors, the conventional orientation, and to a certain extent the self-realizing one, can be considered as protective factors, whereas the hedonistic orientation is regarded as the risk factor of the development of young people.

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