National Identification and Ethnocentric Bias among Greek Adolescents: In Search of Correlates

This essay aims at a secondary analysis of some of the Greek data collected for the Youth and History project. It is an exploratory investigation that adopts an approach based on Social Identity Theory (SIT) in order to identify correlates of the forms of national identification and ethnocentric bias expressed by Greek adolescents. Variables reflecting both ethnocentric and Eurocentric views were found to be significant predictors of the level of national identification. At the same time, high ethnocentric bias was found to be negatively related to conventional views of nations and an affirmative concept of Europe, while positively related to discriminatory attitudes towards immigrants.