🇩🇪 "Using an inductive approach, we asked 987 German citizens to describe what being German means for them. A latent class analysis of content-coded responses revealed four classes: a heritage-based identity class with a strong focus on language and culture (39%), an ideology-based identity class that revolves around democracy, welfare, freedom, and economy and safety (19%), a legal-formalistic identity class that is mostly concerned with the legal requirement for obtaining and holding citizenship of national identity (26%), and a trait-based identity class describing personality-traits that are supposed to be typical for Germans (16%)."
Ditlmann, R. K., & Kopf-Beck, J. (2019). The Meaning of Being German: An Inductive Approach to National Identity. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 423-447. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v7i1.557 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Report #DOI #Identity #German #Ethnicity #Ethnic #Germany #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology
@bibliolater @psychology curious to see if this has changed since.
@kirstinfheise @psychology As far as I know there has not been a follow up study. It would be interesting to see if there is any difference with the changes that have occured in #Germany since 2019.
