Diferențe interregionale pe dimensiunea parohialism/naționalism Cross-Region Differences on Inward-Oriented Nationalism Dimension among Romanian Students Section Studies and Research Papers

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the parochialism dimension, by four significant socio-statistical indicators: the independence/interdependence level, the internal/external locus of control, complex identification/local identification (eight identities scale: inhabitant of the world, European, South-Eastern European, Central European, ethnic identification, regional identification, neighbourhood identification) and naming a representative local personality. The subjects involved in this research are students from the seven University centres, belonging to the seven historical regions of Romania: Ardeal (Sibiu), Transilvania (Cluj-Napoca), Banat (Timișoara), Moldova (Iași), Oltenia (Craiova), Muntenia (București) and Dobrogea (Constanța). The established hypotheses of the research are: 1) there are statistically significant interregional differences approaching the independence/interdependence, the internal/external locus of control, the national identification; 2) the internal locus of control correlates with independence and the external locus of control correlates with interdependence; 3) complex identification correlates with independence and the internal locus of control, the delimiting nationalism and the local identification correlate with interdependence and the external locus of control, the delimiting parochialism. Combining the analyses contextually to establish that the independence/interdependence dimension, the internal/external locus of control dimension and the national identification are indicators of nationalism/parochialism, we can conclude that there are statistically significant interregional differences on the Romanian students' national sample.