TY - GEN

T1 - Meaning of foreigners among Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian university students

AU - Kõiv, Kristi

AU - Gurieva, Svetlana

AU - Deyneka, Olga

AU - Zuzeviciute, Vaiva

AU - Liduma, Anna

AU - Rone, Sandra

N1 - Kristi Kõiv, Svetlana Gurieva, Olga Deyneka, Vaiva Zuzeviciute, Anna Liduma, Sandra Rone. (2019). Meaning of foreigners among Estonia, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian university students. InPACT 2019. Zagreb.Croatia.4-6 May/Ed. by Clara Pracana & Michael Wang. Lisbon: W.I.A.R.S. 124-129. http://inpact-psychologyconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/InPACT-2019_Book-Proceedings.pdf.

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The purpose of this pilot study was to explore how Estonia, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian university students conceptualize the meaning of foreigners. The present study examines similarities and differences between Estonian (N=118), Latvian (N=101), Lithuanian (N=101), and Russian (N=92) university students’ understandings about foreigners by self-reported open-ended questionnaire. The applied categorical quantitative analysis of the data was the basis for statistical analysis. Results revealed quite distinctive meanings associated with foreigners when comparing four samples' conceptualizations. The meaning of foreigners among university students was generally conceptualized in society level as an exclusion of people connected with different nationality and language, whereby Russian respondents empathized more differences in citizenship and three Baltic states respondents in attitudes and values. Overall acceptance or unacceptance of foreigners tended to depend on the level – foreigners were more accepted in personal level and unaccepted in society level. Additionally, all university students were generally open and tolerant toward foreigners in the area of individual differences evoked from cultural enrichment, but Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian students were more prone to accept foreigners when there was a mutual respect with common values, and Estonians expressed more the attitude about equality of people. University students in four study groups were generally agree, that foreigners have influenced them more positive than negative way, but reasons were different: Lithuanians empathize more sympathy and helping behavior; Estonian and Latvian more enlargement of knowledge’s with increase of tolerance; and Russian students’ opinions were more connected with undirect influence by means of media, art and literature.

AB - The purpose of this pilot study was to explore how Estonia, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian university students conceptualize the meaning of foreigners. The present study examines similarities and differences between Estonian (N=118), Latvian (N=101), Lithuanian (N=101), and Russian (N=92) university students’ understandings about foreigners by self-reported open-ended questionnaire. The applied categorical quantitative analysis of the data was the basis for statistical analysis. Results revealed quite distinctive meanings associated with foreigners when comparing four samples' conceptualizations. The meaning of foreigners among university students was generally conceptualized in society level as an exclusion of people connected with different nationality and language, whereby Russian respondents empathized more differences in citizenship and three Baltic states respondents in attitudes and values. Overall acceptance or unacceptance of foreigners tended to depend on the level – foreigners were more accepted in personal level and unaccepted in society level. Additionally, all university students were generally open and tolerant toward foreigners in the area of individual differences evoked from cultural enrichment, but Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian students were more prone to accept foreigners when there was a mutual respect with common values, and Estonians expressed more the attitude about equality of people. University students in four study groups were generally agree, that foreigners have influenced them more positive than negative way, but reasons were different: Lithuanians empathize more sympathy and helping behavior; Estonian and Latvian more enlargement of knowledge’s with increase of tolerance; and Russian students’ opinions were more connected with undirect influence by means of media, art and literature.

KW - Concept of foreigners

KW - attitudes towards foreigners

KW - university students

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UR - http://inpact-psychologyconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/InPACT-2019_Book-Proceedings.pdf

UR - http://inpact-psychologyconference.org/2019/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2019inpact030.pdf

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-989-54312-2-9

T3 - Psychological Applications and Trends 

SP - 124

EP - 129

BT - Psychological Applications and Trends 2019

A2 - Pracana, Clara

A2 - Wang, Michael

PB - GIMA

CY - Lisbon

T2 - International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2019

Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 6 May 2019

ER -