Original scientific paper
THE LATENT ATTITUDE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF ESTIMATIONS OF CURRENT SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION
Benjamin Čulig
Abstract
The research “Modernization and Identity of Croatian Society” was carried out during June 2004. on a random representative and stratified sample of the population of Croatia (N=1202). A part of the project was research of acceptance of political attitude structures and with them very closely related respondents’ opinions of current political problems. The method used in research was a 21 item questionarre, associated with a five grade ordinal attitude estimation scale. The component analysis of estimations of current social and political problems resulted in 4 varimax factors: 1. Developmental pessimism, 2. Optimistic view at Croatian future, 3. Socio - egalitarian criticism of society, 4. Confidence in culture and civil society institutions. Content and connotation of the obtained dimensions suggest the presence of 4 Independent types of estimations of current social and political problems. Multiple regression analysis has shown that the political attitude structures, in comparison to individual characteristics, are consistant and explain relatively wel estimations of current social and political problems.
Keywords
political attitude structures; political concepts; estimations of current social and political problems
Hrčak ID:
9104
URI
Publication date:
28.9.2005.
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