TRUST IN PEOPLE AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS IMMIGRATION

• Authors: Výrost Jozef , Dobeš Marek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We use data from the European Social Survey (ESS) Rounds 1-7 to investigate the relationship between trust in people and attitudes towards immigrants and immigration. Our analysis is based on large longitudinal comparative survey data (ESS), where the immigrant attitudes are operationalized by two groups of items: the attitude toward immigrants and the attitude toward immigration. We constructed a structural equations model comprised of three intercorrelated latent variables. Each latent variable was supported by three items from the ESS questionnaire. The results show that the questions in the ESS questionnaire that targeted respective attitudes and values (immigrants, immigration and trust) are consistent and that each triplet measures a common underlying factor. Our analysis shows that although correlation signs and strengths are consistent among people in various countries, significant differences remain in terms of how strongly trust in people and attitudes towards immigrants and immigration are correlated. We can hypothesize that immigration is not perceived as emotionally in the countries that joined later (most of the data have been collected before the current migration crisis); therefore, the fear of immigrants may not be as intense, and the correlation with the underlying factor of feeling secure is not as high.

Keywords

EN

ATTITUDES; IMMIGRATION; TRUST; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 34 - 43

Contributors

author

Výrost Jozef

• Institute of Social Sciences, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences of SAS, Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Dobeš Marek

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/cas.2019.01.551