DIMENZIJE ETNOCENTRIZMA I NACIONALNA PRIPADNOST
DIMENSIONS OF ETHNOCENTRISM AND NATIONAL BELONGING

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to determine (1) whether certain attitudes towards one's own and somebody else's nationality are in such mutual relations that on a latent level they form interpretable, relatively independent dimensions of ethnocentrism, and (2) whether Croats, Hungarians, Yugoslavs, Serbs and examinees from the Croatian national corpus who have only declared themselves nationally as Bunjevci (Ba~ka Croats), significantly differ among themselves with regard to the degree of internalisation of certain dimensions of ethnocentrism. The research was conducted on a sample of general adult population (N=396) in Subotica. The scale ETNO-1 (26 items) was constructed and factor analysis applied indicating the existence of three latent dimensions of ethnocentrism: national restrictedness, national affective commitment, and the mentality of national state of emergency. Canonic discriminant analysis established that members of different national groups differ among themselves with regard to the degree of internalisation of certain latent dimensions of ethnocentrism. The interfactor correlation values are such that they indicate the possibility of constructing a scale of a kind of general ethnocentrism.

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