Attitudes toward national integration in Nigeria 20 years since the civil war: An empirical investigation of two Ibo localities.

摘要

By using the following statistical techniques Pearson's correlation, crosstabulation and path analysis, this study examines the influence that background and attitudinal variables have on support for national integration. The findings show that among the background variables only education and region have direct and significant effect on attitudes toward national integration. Among all the independent variables used in the study only social distance, years of education, media use and region have statistically significant direct effect on attitude toward national integration. Respondents with more education were more supportive of national integration. These variables collectively explain 21.4 percent of the variation in the dependent variable.