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Contextual effects on subjective national identity
Author(s) -
Barceló Joan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
nations and nationalism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1469-8129
pISSN - 1354-5078
DOI - 10.1111/nana.12080
Subject(s) - acculturation , identity (music) , immigration , context (archaeology) , feeling , national identity , variance (accounting) , politics , affect (linguistics) , biology and political orientation , population , social psychology , psychology , sociology , demographic economics , political science , geography , demography , economics , law , aesthetics , accounting , archaeology , communication , philosophy
Abstract Does the interaction between context and individual‐level features affect political attitudes? By using the case of C atalonia, a receiver region of international and national immigration since the fifties, this paper intersects a classic acculturation model and a newly reemerging literature in political science on contextual determinants of political behaviour to analyze how context affects subjective national identity. Results reveal that environment matters. The Percentage of S pain‐born population in the municipality is statistically significant to account for variance in the subjective national identity, even after controlling for age, sex, origin, language and left–right orientation and other contextual factors. This conclusion suggests that researchers should not underestimate the direct effect of the environment on feelings of belonging in contexts of rival identities.