期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：2006
卷号：15
期号：1-2 (81-82)
页码：141-153
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：In the paper the authors investigated the hypothesis that the greater or lesser openness of the public towards the accession of Croatia to the European Union, is among other, connected with the level of national pride. The data were gathered within an extensive research project of public opinion conducted in December 2002. Openness to European integrations was defined as the degree of desirability of Croatia's entering important European associations and institutions. Identification of the degree of national pride was based on the application of two scales, the first of which measured the "general national pride", as an expression of general national values, while the other was used to determine the evaluation of specific achievements of the country on the cultural-historical and economic-political levels. Although, generally speaking, a great majority of the citizens interviewed at the time of the research were very supportive of Croatian accession to the European Union, on both applied scales, and also expressed a relatively high degree of national pride, the results indicate that, on the level of general national values, persons who show a high degree of national identification are a little less inclined towards the accession process than persons expressing a lesser degree of "general national pride", while a more positive evaluation of the country regarding specific social achievements is correlated with a greater openness to the process of accession to the European Union. However, since the way of evaluating the social situation explains differences in the openness to Euro-integration processes to a greater extent than differences in general national values do, it seems that the result of the final commitment of citizens to entering the European Union could depend much more on the public valorisation of the current social situation than on how someone generally identifies with the Croatian nation.
关键词：national pride; European integrations; public opinion research
