Factors Of National Attachment Of Youth From Southern Serbia And Northern Kosovo And Metohija
Factors Of National Attachment Of Youth From Southern Serbia And Northern Kosovo And Metohija

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research is to examine the prominence and certain correlates of the sense of national attachment among high school students of Serbian nationality in the north of Kosovo and Metohija and in the south of Serbia. The sample consists of 455 respondents, 179 high school students in Kosovska Mitrovica and 276 high school students in Niš. The research focuses on the correlation of collective and personal self-esteem, acceptance of certain value orientations, and socio-demographic variables (gender, monthly income, parental level of education, school success) with attachment to one‘s own nation. The results showed that a higher sense of national attachment among high school students entails their giving higher value to isolation from the rest of the world, religiosity, authoritarianism, and general activism is, as well as more prominent collective and personal self-esteem across the total sample. As regards the respondents from the north of Kosovo, none of the socio-demographic variables correlate with the degree of national attachment, whereas in the subsample from Serbia there is a tendency for the male students with lower monthly income and lower level of education of the mother to have a stronger sense of national attachment.

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