On ethnic self-identification of Lithuanian students

Present a study among about 1 thousand Lithuanian students by means of a questionnaire covering some 600 positions arranged along 20 psychometric scales (with 65 sub-scales). Multi-stage factor analysis permitted to reveal a fairly outspoken polarization of attitudes to national identity along the divide of modernism versus tradition encompassing civic commitment to culture, nation, language, and ethnic belonging. Basic groups of students in Lithuania might thus arguably be divided into 'modemists', 'ethnocentric', 'dualists' and 'indifferent'Kauno technologijos universiteta