The Attitudes of Migrants Towards the Situation in Yugoslavia and its Integration into Europe – Factor Analysis

Ovo je dio izvještaja o empirijskom dijelu projekta »Vanjske migracije i društveni razvoj«, kojeg je autor proveo u Institutu za migracije i narodnosti s grupom suradnika. Uzorak čini 271 vanjski migrant prve generacije iz dviju izrazilo vanjskomigracijskih općina kontinentalnog dijela Hrvatske, koje se međusobno razlikuju po razvijenosti. Anketiranje je obavljeno na terenu u nekoliko dana između Božića i Nove Godine 1989. U okviru upitnika konstruirane su dvije ljestvice stavova Likertovog tipa. Prva se odnosila na društveno političku situaciju u zemlji, a druga na evropsku integraciju i pitanje jugoslavenskog priključenja proširenom EEZ-u. Faktorska analiza izlučila je iz prve ljestvice 6 faktora. Analizirali smo i definirali tri tipa stavova: optimistički, umjereno optimistički i pesimistički. 0 jugoslavenskoj perspektivi uključivanja u Evropu ispitanici su se, pak, grupirali u tri orijentacije: optimističko proevropsku, skeptike i pesimiste. Na kraju napravljena je i regresijska analiza faktora s nezavisnim varijablama kao kriterijima. Poseban utjecaj na neke od faktora ustanovljen je za općinsko porijeklo ispitanika, spol, radni status, školsku spremu.This is part of a report on the empirical study within the project »External Migrations and Social Development« conducted by the author and a group of associates in the Institute for Migrations and Nationalities. The sample consists of 271 first generation external migrants from two distinctly external-migrational communes in I he continental part of Croatia, differing mutually in the degree of development. The survey was conducted there between Christmas and New Year\u27s Day 1989. The questionnaire consisted of two Likert-type scales of attitude items. The first referred to the socio-political situation in Yugoslavia, while the second referred to the European integration and the issue of Yugoslavia\u27s integration into an extended European Community. By means of factor analysis 6 factors were extracted from the first scale. The author analysed and defined 3 types of attitudes: the optimistic, the moderately optimistic and the pessimistic type. Regarding the chances of Yugoslavia\u27s integration into Europe, the examinees have then been categorized as belonging to 3 groups of orientations: the optimistic pro-Europeans, the sceptics and the pessimists. Finally, the regression factor analysis was performed with independent variables serving as criteria. A special influence on some of the factors has been established concerning the examinee\u27s origins (the district he comes from), his sex, his work-status and level of education