摘要：This paper discusses family cohesion in rural and urban families, that is analysed based on the results of survey research conducted on the proportional sample of high school students (4 865 adolescents) from Primorsko-goranska, Ličko-senjska and Dubrovačko-neretvanska counties. The research used the adopted Scale of family rituals and family activities (Compan et al, 2002.) The results indicate significant differences in some forms of family interaction in rural and urban families, and a somewhat different perception of family cohesion of girls and boys. Family trips, picnics and shopping are characteristic of the urban family interaction, while for the rural family dominant patterns of family interaction are going to church together, having meals together, spending holidays together and completing school work. Level analyses of the discriminative function shows that girls differ from their male counterparts at the statistically significant level in ten out of twelve examined forms of family interaction: for girls going shopping and for walks with one of the parents are characteristic, while for boys it is going to sport events or playing sports. The relation of family cohesion and well-being of urban and rural adolescents was also examined. It reinforced that family cohesion is strongly determined with well-being of adolescents, which is in general more evident in girls than it is in boys. Poor family communication has a significantly greater negative effect on adolescents' well-being in rural areas than in those from urban areas and it indicates that quality of family communication is probably more important protective factor for functioning of adolescents' personality from rural areas than for their counterparts in urban areas. There were however no global significant differences found in well-being of urban and rural youth, since interaction effect of rural-urban or gender factor is not statistically significant.
