Abstract

The aim of this research was to find out 1 whether social alienation right-wing authoritarianism RWA and primary psychopathy are significant predictors of Daniel Bar-Tal Dikla Antebi s concept of general siege mentality GSM and 2 whether the components of the path model are invariant across different ethnic groups The survey was carried out on the adult population in the region of eastern Croatia where live Croats and Serbian ethnic minority and in the northern region of Serbia where live the members of Croatian ethnic minority The Province of Vojvodina The convenience and purposive sample consisted of 1431 full aged participants Multiple-group analysis of structural invariance was used to test whether differences observed in the structural parameters across different ethnic groups are statistically significant All path estimates were significant in the expected direction and indicated much similarity in structural relationships across different ethnic groups It might be concluded that social alienation right-wing authoritarianism and primary psychopathy had expressed the causal effects on emerging general siege mentality across different ethnic groups The structural paths for different ethnic groups can be considered identical if Chi-square does not reveal a statistically significant difference between unconstrained and constrained models It was found out that difference in path estimates for different ethnic groups had not been significant which means that constrained multiple group model was accepted Results showed that ethnic belongings did not significantly moderate relations between variables About 36 of the variance of general siege mentality was explained by social alienation right-wing authoritarianism and primary psychopathy for the full sample in the accepted constrained model There is an evidence that a more complex and severe political-psychological disorder is underpinning the Bar-Tal Antebi s concept of general siege