title: Youth and personality formation--the world belongs to the strength of the young and to the wisdom of the elderly (a point of view of the communicologist).
abstract: It is known from the pedagogic, didactic and experience coordinates that a man doesn't become better by using words but by his actions. They are matchless examples for the self-apprehension process and the perception of the action itself as well as the only worthy and accurate offer for the assessment of the range and the significance of the achieved result. From the earliest stage of their life, from the childhood and then later on in different stages of their development and growth, the human being as a social being has a double need: to feel himself in the range of his "I" and to feel himself as a member of a group, a family and of the society in general. Satisfying the sense and the level of those needs doubtlessly depends on the examples given by the life itself and the circumstances of the living within the family, the school and finally the society, that is, the surroundings where the individual is affirming himself by his individual creative capability and skills with which he realizes himself as a subject on its own as well as within the social group he lives and works in. The conditions of the life and work of the elderly are necessary for this important and precious task in the development of a young man so that the applications of their experiences could ensure reliable guidelines for the harmony and success of the life and work of the young. On this bridge of generations the experience of the old is affirmed along with the need for its aimed, creative and fruitful offer to the young in the dynamic process of their development to the maturity and creativity.
authors.affiliation: Croatian National Theatre, Marketing Department, Zagreb, Croatia. selezovic@inantro.hr
authors.forename: Slobodan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elezović
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D003405:Creativity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D019359:Knowledge; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012919:Social Behavior; D012924:Social Conditions