Abstract: Emotional abuse against a child in the family can negatively affect his or her physical, mental, spiritual, moral, as well as social development. The purpose of this paper is to analyze socio-structural and cultural determinants of emotional abuse against children in rural areas, given that these groups of determinants differ in the conditions under which urban and rural abuse is more or less likely to occur. Different behaviors can be classified under emotional abuse – rejection, degradation, intimidation, different discriminatory practices, and certainly denial of emotional response. The methods of theoretical content analysis with basic methods of concretization and specialization, normative, comparative method, as well as basic quantitative analysis of tabulated data are applied in this paper. The expected results of the research should give a clearer picture of the differences in socio-structural and cultural treatment of activities that can be considered emotional abuse against children in rural areas, compared to urban areas. It is also interesting to analyze comparative data on the prevalence of emotional abuse against children in families in the Balkan region. Comparing the experiences of urban and rural areas, this paper contributes to a clearer picture of the conditionality of emotional abuse against children in rural areas and makes overarching recommendations to prevent the basic socio-structural and cultural determinants and factors in this domain. Sažetak: Emocionalno nasilje nad detetom u porodici može negativno da se reflektuje na njegov fizički, mentalni, duhovni, moralni, kao i društveni razvoj. Svrha rada je analiza socio-strukturnih i kulturoloških determinanti emocionalnog nasilja nad decom u ruralnim sredinama, imajući u vidu da se upravo po ovim grupama determinanti razlikuju uslovi pod kojima je manje ili više verovatno da će doći do nasilja u urbanim i ruralnim sredinama. Različiti načini ponašanja se mogu podvesti pod emocionalno nasilje – odbacivanje, degradiranje, zastrašivanje, različiti diskriminatorski postupci, a svakako i uskraćivanje emocionalnog odgovora. U radu su primenjeni metodi teorijske analize sadržaja uz osnovne metode konkretizacije i specijalizacije, normativni, komparativni metod, kao i osnovna kvantitativna analiza tabelarno prikazanih podataka. Očekivani rezultati istraživanja treba da daju jasnu sliku o razlikama u sociostrukturnom i kulturološkom tretmanu aktivnosti koje spadaju u domen emocionalnog nasilja nad decom u porodici u ruralnim sredinama, u odnosu na urbane sredine. Takođe, zanimljivo je analizirati komparativne podatke o zastupljenosti emocionalnog nasilja nad decom u porodici na prostoru Balkana. Poredeći iskustva urbanih i ruralnih sredina, rad doprinosi sticanju jasnije slike o uslovljenosti emocionalnog nasilja nad decom u porodici u ruralnim sredinama, te daje načelne preporuke u cilju preveniranja osnovnih socio-strukturnih i kulturoloških determinanti i faktora u ovom domenu. Keywords: Emotional abuse, children, socio-structural determinants, cultural determinants, rural areas. Ključne reči: emocionalno nasilje, deca, socio-strukturne determinante, kulturološke determinante, ruralna sredina, prevencija. Kultura polisa volume: 20 number: 3 startpage: 27 endpage: 49 2023 eng srp https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:6987 doi:10.51738/Kpolisa2023.20.3r.27pm ISSN: 1820-4589 info:eu-repo/semantics/review http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Milan, Počuča Matijašević, Jelena Socio-structural and cultural determinants of emotional abuse of children in families in rural areas Socio-strukturne i kulturološke determinante emocionalnog nasilja u porodici nad decom u ruralnim sredinama application/pdf 211446 bytes