Table 1. Factor analyses of fourteen national identity items (data from ten European
countries; N=8655)
|
Item |
Dimension (patriotic) |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
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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