摘要：This paper is the first attempt to research the islandity in Croatia as the determinant of the quality of parenthood. The paper is relevant for two reasons: the first, psychological researches undoubtedly point at an exceptional importance of the impact the parenting has on the child's psychic and social development: the unacceptance of the child and the lack of warmth and support can cause emotional problems and make the psychic adaptation during the childhood and later on more difficult. The second, among other factors, the parent's relation towards the children depends on the particular type of island social solidarity and control, traditional culture and system of values. The objective of the research was to find out are there differences in the parenthood style in North Adriatic islands, the town of Rijeka and in Gorski kotar region, and if these differences exist, what are their effects on the quality of parent-adolescent relationship, and to find out whether the quality of parenthood and the adolescent's adaptation are connected. The data were collected in 1998 by the method of questionnaire among the proportional sample of middle schools students in Primorsko-goranska county, and for this paper the data gained from 312 middle schools students from the islands of Krk, Rab, Lošinj and Cres, 1676 students from the town of Rijeka and 154 students from Gorski kotar were processed. The quality of parenthood was measured by the scale of evaluation of parents' attitude and of the encouragement of the sons' and daughters' autonomy, while the adolescents' adaptation was measured by the scale of their satisfaction with their lives, the existential emptiness, the manifest aggressiveness and their autonomy. E'jor the first and the second problem a two-way analysis of variance was carried out, and for the third one a canonical correlational analysis was made. The results of the analyses lead to conclusion that parents on the islands give the least emotional warmth, support and autonomy, whilst daughters get the worst treatment (the mothers allow significantly more autonomy to sons), and that the adolescents on the islands, especially the girls, have more problems with psychic adaptation then their coevals in close regions. There is no difference in the manifest aggressiveness between the young islandbrs and the people of the same age in other regions, but it is indicative that the level of aggressiveness of island girls is rather high. The level of autonomous behaviour and adaptability of young islanders is also lower. The authors came to the following conclusions: (a) young islanders, in particular the girls, make a specific risky group within the young population of Primorskogoranska county; (b) the differences between the young islanders and the other two groups of adolescents are determined by the quality of parenthood as well, and they point at a particular destroyed traditional (patriarchal) parent's style on the islands.
关键词：islandity; adolescents; quality of parenthood; psychic adaptation of adolescents
