Marina Matić Tandarić

Bio: Marina Matić Tandarić is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

High School Students’ Leisure Time Activities

Abstract: The research paper examines high school students’ leisure time preferences (N=437, 194 male, 44.4%; 243 female, 55.6%) while taking into account the school type, age and gender effect on their leisure preferences. The study included mid and late adolescents whose age ranged from 14 to 19. The questionnaire consisted of socio-demographic and leisure time activity questions. The results point to significant differences between students in terms of culture-oriented, family-oriented and passively spent free time activities. A statistically significant difference was found in relation to spending time in a bar (passively-idly spent time) as older adolescents were more prone to it. A significant difference was noted in terms of attending church, sermons or lectures (religion-oriented free time) and actively doing sports (sport-oriented free time), where younger adolescents ascribed a higher importance to these activities as opposed to older adolescents. Gender was significant concerning family and home-oriented leisure activities, passively-idly spent activities, culture and sport-oriented activities. Future studies should incorporate a more comprehensive list of activities in order to provide an in-depth view of out-of-school activities and daily lifestyles.

Slobodno vrijeme mladih u procesima modernizacije – usporedba slavonskih gradova i Zadra

Abstract: Sažetak Područje slobodnog vremena mladih situira se sadržajnom dimenzijom provođenja slobodnog vremena koja određuje njihov prepoznatljiv životni stil. Rad se bavi usporedbom sadržaja (stilova) slobodnog vremena mladih i njihovim vrijednosnim orijentacijama u pet slavonskih gradova (Osijek, Požega, Slavonski Brod, Virovitica, Vinkovci) i Zadra. Usporedba je obavljena na osnovi rezultata empirijskog istraživanja koje su proveli Mlinarević (2005) te Proroković i sur. (2006). Istraživanja nisu potpuno usporediva, ali pružaju dovoljno elemenata za poopćavanje rezultata dobivenih primjenom sličnih instrumenata istraživanja (sociodemografske osobine ispitanika, sadržaji/orijentacije slobodnog vremena, zadovoljstvo provođenjem slobodnog vremena i vrijednosne orijentacije obrazovanja i rada). Teorijski okvir u koji se interpretacija rezultata smješta jest određenje slobodnog vremena, suvremeni trendovi slobodnog vremena mladih, njihovi specifični životni stilovi, čimbenici utjecaja na slobodno vrijeme te njihovo socijalno okružje u slobodnom vemenu i perspektiva mladih glede obrazovanja i rada te kvalitetnijeg provođenja slobodnog vremena. U budućnosti se očekuje da će slobodno vrijeme sve više imati (a ima to već i danas) obilježja potrošačke kulture (Miliša, 2006). Na temelju dobivenih rezultata može se zaključiti da mladi Slavonije i Zadra provode češće nestrukturirano slobodno vrijeme u druženju, zabavi i dokolici, da su time relativno nezadovoljni kao i mjestima na kojima ga provode. Ovim se radom daje uvid u svakodnevicu mladih dviju udaljenih regija Republike Hrvatske u urbanom gradskom prostoru. Rezultati istraživanja otvaraju nova pitanja o problemima i potrebama mladih za kvalitetnijim provođenjem slobodnog vremena.

Continuity and Changes in Croatian University Students’ Leisure Time Activities

Abstract: In this paper the authors discuss changes in the Croatian university students’ leisure time acitivities. The analysis is based on a comparison of the data gathered in the youth researches in Croatia in 1999 in 2004. Results showed that in a five year period the patterns of leisure time activities of Croatian university students statistically significantly changed, the change in relation between university students’ leisure time activities and their sex, age and residential status occurred. At the same time, the results confirmed there are stabile patterns of leisure time activities during five year period, these patterns are to a significant extent constituted by products and contents of mass culture. (IN CROATIAN: U ovom radu autorice analiziraju promjene u aktivnostima slobodnoga vremena hrvatskih studenata. Analiza se temelji na usporedbi podataka prikupljenih istraživanjima mladih u cijeloj Hrvatskoj 1999. i 2004. godine. Rezultati su pokazali da je u promatranom petogodisnjem razdoblju doslo do znatnih promjena u nekim segmentima provođenja slobodnoga vremena hrvatskih studenata, kao i u smjeru i jacini povezanosti obrazaca koristenja slobodnoga vremena sa spolom, dobi i rezidencijalnim statusom studenata. Istodobno, potvrđeno je postojanje stabilnih obrazaca provođenja slobodnoga vremena studenata u promatranom razdoblju koje u najvecoj mjeri konstituiraju produkti i sadržaji masovne kulture.)

Individualizacija potrošačke kulture

Abstract: The author offers a notional and theoretic contextualisation of the development of the consumer culture, against the background of an ever increasing individualisation inside contemporary societies. As she analyses old and new theoretic contributions to the conception of consumer culture, the author becomes increasingly aware of the role played by the environmental reflection of the consumer behaviour in the notional transformation of the consumer culture. Namely, the change from the work ethics to consumption ethics has, along with other factors, irrevocably changed the meaning of consumption not only in economics and culture, but also in everyday life, modifying the meaning of the consumption culture. With the replacement of the production with consumption socialisation the significance of the culture of consumption has grown to such an extent that it not only becomes the generator of social changes, but plays a decisive role in their understanding, as well. The symbols of the consumer culture begin to shape all social relations, dominating the conception of reality, everyday notions and ways of establishing identity. An even increasing consumption forces individuals to inter-dependence and the same time, paradoxically, to an ever greater individualisation, in which everyone is forced to invest his own choices