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15 JEMIE 50 (2016)
Evaluating the Structure of Nationalistic Inclinations: Confirmatory Factor Analysis

handle is hein.journals/jemie2016 and id is 50 raw text is: *Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe jEM IE Vol 15, No 1, 2016, 50-74. Copyright © ECMI 2016 This article is located at: http://wiw.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIIE/2016/Sram.pdf Evaluating the Structure of Nationalistic Inclinations: Confirmatory Factor Analysis Dr. Zlatko Sram * Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies Abstract Starting from the notion that nationalism can be presented and interpreted as nationalistic inclinations composed of various components or dimensions of ethnic views and sentiments, the aim of this paper is to research whether national emotional attachment, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, the perception of threat posed by some ethnic minority groups, and national siege mentality are correlated to such a degree that they form a latent homogeneous and internally coherent construct of nationalistic inclinations. In this research, the nationalistic inclinations are defined as a system of mutually associated ethnic orientations and sentiments constructed from the threat perception (cognitive component), ethnic exclusionism (potentially behavioural component) and strong national affection (affective component). The study was carried out on a random sample of students at the University of Zagreb (N=368). In order to establish the factor and construct validity of the created Nationalistic Inclination Scale (NIS-1) consisting of 15 items, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed. The first order CFA yielded a three-factor model ('xenophobia and anti-Semitism', 'perception of threat to national security', and 'national emotional attachment') which on the level of second-order CFA resulted in plausible model of nationalistic inclinations with acceptable goodness-of-fit measures (SRMR=0.06; RMSEA=0.09; CFI=0.95; NFI=0.95). The results imply that the theoretical model of nationalistic inclinations is confirmed, and high reliability of the NIS-1 (alpha=0.89) proves it is a parsimonious, useful and efficient tool for assessing nationalistic inclination, and thus one aspect of nationalism in sociological and political sciences. Keywords: nationalistic inclinations, nationalism, threat perception, confirmatory factor analysis, NSS- 1 * Trg Stjepana Radida 3, 10000 Zagreb, Republic of Croatia. E-mail: zlatko.sram@imin.hr.

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