Konstrukcija i validacija skale stavova prema uvođenju eura kao službene valute u RH

master's thesis

• Title (english): Construction and validation of the attitude scale towards adopting the euro as the official Croatian currency
• Author: Borna Bezjak
• Mentor: Blaž Rebernjak (mentor)
• Committee member: Željka Kamenov (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Nikola Erceg (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Psychology); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-07-04, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Social Psychology

Abstract

Euro je službena valuta 19 država članica Europske unije. Hrvatska se pristupanjem EU obavezala prihvatiti euro kao službenu valutu i trenutno se nalazi u tečajnom mehanizmu (ERM II), poznatom kao „čekaonica za euro”. Prije preuzimanja eura Hrvatska mora barem dvije godine ostati u ERM II tijekom kojih se testira zadovoljava li Maastriške kriterije konvergencije. Cilj ovog istraživanja je konstrukcija i validacija instrumenta koji će mjeriti stavove građana RH prema uvođenju eura kao službene valute. Konstruirane su dvije skale stavova: Likertova skala i semantički diferencijal. U istraživanju je sudjelovalo 478 sudionika, od koji je 288 ženskog roda. Rezultati faktorske analize upućuju na dva faktora u podlozi instrumenta: nacionalni faktor i faktor financijskih očekivanja. Konfirmatorna faktorska analiza pruža podršku ovoj faktorskoj soluciji, te soluciji s faktorom višeg reda. Rod, dob, materijalni status, razina obrazovanja, samoprocjena informiranosti o prednostima i nedostacima uvođenja eura, podrška europskoj integraciji te desničarska autoritarnost pokazali su se statistički značajnim korelatima stavovima prema euru, dok smještaj na političkom spektru nije dosegnuo statističku značajnost.

Abstract (english)

The euro is the official currency of 19 member-states of the European Union. When joining the EU, Croatia obliged to adopt the euro as its official currency and currently is participating in Exchange rate mechanism (ERM II), also known as “the euro waiting room”. Before adopting the euro, Croatia has to remain within ERM II at least for two years, during which is tested weather it satisfies the Maastricht convergence criteria. The goal of this research is construction and validation of the instrument which will measure the attitudes of the Croatian citizens towards adoption of the euro as the official currency. Two attitude scales were constructed: Likert scale and semantic differential. 487 participants took part in the study, 288 of whom are female. Results of the factor analysis suggest two factors underlying the instrument: national factor and financial expectations factor. Confirmatory factor analysis provides support for this factor solution, as well as the solution with a higher order factor. Gender, age, financial status, education level, self-reported level of information about advantages and disadvantages of adopting the euro, support of the european integration and right-wing authoritarianism proved themselves statistically significant correlates of the attitudes towards the euro, while political spectrum failed to reach statistical significance.

• Keywords: stavovi; euro; validacija
• Keywords (english): attitudes; euro; validation
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:092292
• Study programme: Title: Psychology; Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra psihologije (magistar/magistra psihologije)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-07-06 22:44:23