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    Mihic, Vladimir

    Psihologija, 2005, Letnik: 38, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    This paper deals with political attitudes of voters in the Vojvodina region and some correlates of these attitudes. Sample was 302 people, all voters of either six of the parties currently in the Serbian parliament (DSS, SRS, SPS, G17+, DS or SPO), or three of the other major parties in Vojvodina (LSV, PSS or SVM). Instruments used were: political attitude scale, social dominance orientation scale (SDO), and a questionnaire dealing with several important issues, such as support for the integration of Serbia into European Union. Factor analysis extracted six factors at the political attitudes scale-antimilitarism, support for the better minority status in the society, support for the different social issues, openness to the world, liberalism and conservativism. All differences concerning the voters? preferences were statistically significant (p < .01). Also, differences at the SDO scale also proved to be significant, as well as correlations between SDO scale and all of the political attitudes factors (correlation varied from .17 to .39). All of these correlations were negative, except for the SDO-conservativism scale. Another difference has been found at the perceived importance of different group identification. Groups were- person's ethnic group, Vojvodina, Serbia and Europe. Most important identification was with the Europe and the least one with the Serbia. Finally, more than 77% of the people in the sample said that they would vote ?yes? at the Serbia joining the EU referendum. Ovaj rad bavi se politickim stavovima biraca sa teritorije Vojvodine i nekim korelatima tih stavova. Ukupno je ispitano 302 ispitanika glasaca sest parlamentarnih stranaka (DSS, SRS, SPO, DS, G17+ i SPS) i tri stranke koje imaju znacajnu podrsku u Vojvodini (LSV, SVM i PSS). Korisceni instrumenti bili su skala politickih stavova, skala orijentacije ka socijalnoj dominaciji (SDO), kao i kratak upitnika o nekim sociodemografskim varijablama. Faktorskom analizom skale politickih stavova izdvojeno je sest faktora-antimilitarizam, zalaganje za bolji polozaj manjina u drustvu, zalaganje za socijalnu pravdu, otvorenost ka svetu, liberalizam i konzervativizam. Na svim faktorima su utvrdjene statisticki znacajne razlike na nivou p< .01. Takodje, statisticki znacajne razlike nadjene su i na skali SDO, a takodje je utvrdjena i korelacija sa svim faktorima skale politickih stavova (negativna sa svim faktorima, osim sa konzervativizmom - r je iznosio od 0.17 do 0.39). Pokazana je i razlika medju biracima na pitanju koje govori o vaznosti pripadanja pojedinim grupama - pripadnost Vojvodini, Republici Srbiji, Evropi i svojoj naciji. Uoceno je da se najveca vaznost pridaje pripadnosti Evropi, a najmanja pripadnosti Republici Srbiji. Na kraju,velika vecina ispitanika (preko 77%) izjasnila se da bi podrzala ulazak Srbije u Evropsku Uniju, bez obzora na biracko opredeljenje.