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Youth Lifestyles and Leisure in a Post-Transitional Context

The paper is based on the results of a survey of undergraduate students of the University of Zadar (Croatia), carried out in 2011. The questionnaire was an updated version of the questionnaire used in the 1999 survey researching youth lifestyles in the Croatian region of Dalmatia (Tomid-Koludrovid, Leburid, 2001). This 1999 survey resulted in a book describing the surveyed youths as “The Skeptical Generation”. In the interpretation, parallels were drawn with Schelsky’s description of the general outlook of the post-WWII West-German youths. A more specific analysis, combining patterns of leisure activities with the characteristics of identity, yielded six types of youth lifestyles, which were at odds with various descriptions of contemporary European lifestyle types. In the 2011 survey, leisure activities patterns of the six types resulting from the 1999 survey were checked on the sample of students in one of the Dalmatian university locations (Zadar). The results show no significant difference in the leisure activities patterns of a “transitional” (surveyed in 1999) and a “posttransitional” (surveyed in 2011) generations. There is a pronounced gender difference in patterns of leisure activities, and certain differences with regard to the field of university studies chosen. No statistically significant differences were found with regard to the patterns of media use, educational and economic background of the parents, as well as rural or urban socialization.

Croatian society; youth; lifestyles; leisure activities patterns

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