STRUKTURA DRUŠTVENIH STAVOVA U HRVATSKOJ
THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ATTITUDES IN CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authors attempted to reveal the basic organizational determinants of social attitudes in Croatia. The problem was interpreted in two levels, the methodological and cultural. The survey was conducted at two time points, during the war in 1992 and after the termination of war operations in 1996/97. In the first part of the research a representative sample of Croatia was examined (2366), and in the second a sample of Zagreb highschool students (444). Two measuring instruments were used representative of social attitudes, Eysenck’s (1971) and the Key Social Issues Scale (Milas, 1998). Factor analysis indicated three fundamental ideological dimensions, ethnocentrism, religiosity and sexsual freedom, consistently appearing regardless of the sample examined, measuring instruments used and social context of the research. The differences with regard to theoretical models and research carried out in Western countries can be explained by the specific social position of Croatia as a transitional country affected by war.

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