Croats in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Relationship between Coexistence and Forgiveness, and Individual Religiosity and Social-political Attitudes
Rad prikazuje rezultate istraživanja, provedenoga krajem 1999. godine na reprezentativnom uzorku od 1.002 odraslih ispitanika hrvatske nacionalnosti u Federaciji BiH. Na osnovu odgovora, prikupljenih Upitnikom, ispitano je kako njihov odnos prema pripadnicima drugih konstitutivnih naroda korelira s nekim individualnim značajkama i društveno-političkim stavovima. Pokazala se izrazito velika etnička udaljenost – nešto veća prema Bošnjacima nego Srbima. Kao što se očekivalo, prihvaćanje suživota negativno je povezano s etnocentričnošću ispitanika, njihovim nacionalnim identitetom, religioznošću i autoritarnim stavovima, dok je pozitivno povezano s procjenama važnosti daljnjeg ostvarivanja demokracije u zemlji, obrazovanjem ispitanika i veličinom mjesta prebivanja. Mjere etničkog odnosa slabo su povezane s individualnim ratnim iskustvom, ali iznenađuje da je više pozitivnih nego negativnih korelacija. Opraštanje “onima koji su zlostavljali i ubijali Hrvate” više podržavaju žene, religiozniji (slaba povezanost) i manje etnocentrični ispitanici, zadovoljniji općim stanjem u zemlji i koji se manje slažu s tim da su za napredak zemlje važni neki aspekti demokracije te da kršćani i muslimani vjeruju u istoga Boga. Odnos prema suživotu, kod ispitanika, nije u skladu sa stavom o oprostu.This article presents the results of the research, conducted by end of the year 1999, among Croats in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (mostly west areas of Federation). The representative sample consists of 1002 adults. On the basis of answers out of questionnaire, it is examined how their relation with members of other constitutive nations (Serbs and Bosnians), correlates with some individual characteristics, including social-political attitudes. The results show great ethnic distance toward two nations, but it is more expressed toward Bosnians than Serbs. As expected, acceptance of coexistence is negatively correlated with ethnocentricity, national identity, religiosity and authoritarian attitudes, while it is positively correlated with assessments of importance of democracy in the country, with personal education level, and the size of the resident place. Measures of ethnic relation are weakly associated to individual war experience, but unexpectedly, the number of positive correlations is higher than number of negative ones. Forgiveness to “those who were doing violence and killings to our compatriots” is more supported by women, by more religious (very weak correlation) and less ethnocentric participants, more satisfied by general situation in country, and by those who are less convicted that some democracy aspects are important for the development of the country and that Christians and Muslims believe in same God. Among participants, relation to coexistence is discordant to the attitude to forgiveness
