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The Effects of Political Cynicism and National Siege Mentality on the Internalization of an Anti-European Sentiment

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  • Zlatko Å ram

    (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia,)

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This paper aims to provide an insight into the political-psychological understanding of an attitudinal construct labeled anti-European sentiment. A structural equation model for prediction was developed and evaluated by using full information mximum likelihood estimates obtained from LISREL 8.52 computer program. Assumption was that both political cynicism and national siege mentality would have an effect on anti-European sentiment. The data reported here were obtained by standard survey methods on the sample of adult population in Croatia (N=533). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed to explore factorial and construct validity of the measures used in this research. CFA yielded unidimensional construct measurements with acceptable fit indices. Structural model indicated that exogenous variables (political cynicism, national siege mentality) have significant effects on the anti-European sentiment used as an endogenous (dependent) variable. Goodness-of-fit indices suggested acceptable fit of the model (RMSEA=0.07, CFI=0.97, NNFI=0.97, SRMR=0.05). Given the amount of variance of anti-European sentiment, it was showen that political cynicism and national siege mentality have strong predictive validity for anti-European sentiment (43 percent of the variance was explained by the structural model). In order to explain the interactions among the variables investigated, the author proposed the distrust-threat model of political hostility.

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  • Zlatko Å ram, 2016. "The Effects of Political Cynicism and National Siege Mentality on the Internalization of an Anti-European Sentiment," International Journal of Business and Social Research, LAR Center Press, vol. 6(1), pages 22-31, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:lrc:larijb:v:6:y:2016:i:1:p:22-31
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