Popular Conceptions of Nationhood in Old and New European



Table 1. Factor analyses of fourteen national identity items (data from ten European
countries; N=8655)

Item

Dimension
1

(patriotic)

2
(political)

3
(cultural)

4
(ethnic)

5
(army&borders)

culture

0.278

0.224

0.752

0.312

0.080

language

0.208

0.217

0.822

0.256

0.139

ancestry

0.257

0.187

0.374

0.758

0.182

history

0.297

0.288

0.298

0.762

0.109

legal system

0.256

0.762

0.180

0.303

0.126

rights and duties

0.267

0.823

0.212

0.166

0.084

social security

0.210

0.827

0.151

0.085

0.249

economy

0.254

0.677

0.147

0.135

0.472

army

0.393

0.363

-0.006

0.239

0.705

borders

0.413

0.250

0.326

0.085

0.678

national pride

0.776

0.227

0.189

0.202

0.261

independence

0.766

0.343

0.176

0.122

0.200

national character

0.789

0.266

0.209

0.195

0.164

symbols

0.762

0.167

0.188

0.248

0.228

NB:     1. The first item („I do not feel [nationality] ’) was excluded from the analysis.

2. Items that show loadings of more than 0.5 are underlined.

3. The percentages of variance explained of the five dimensions were 23.1, 22.0, 13.2, 12.0 and 10.9
respectively. The corresponding eigenvalues were 3.24, 3.08, 1.84, 1.68, and 1.52.

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