Objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of selected psychological factors in relation to emigration intentions of voluntary permanent migration among university students. Sample and setting. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Faculty of Arts, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice and carried out in a sample of 487 university students (76% of women, M=22.81, SD=2.97) from 18 Slovak universities who completed the measures on subjective importance of faith, attendance of religious services, desire for change, emigration self-efficacy, positive attitudes toward emigration and emigration intentions. Hypotheses. The authors assumed that there would be either direct or indirect effects of the selected psychological variables on emigration intentions of the voluntary permanent migration of university students. Statistical analysis. In order to test and estimate the hierarchy of the causal relationships in the model, modelling by structural equations (SEM) in AMOS 20 was used. Results. The study confirmed direct positive associations of emigration self-efficacy, attitudes to emigration, desire for change as well as direct negative associations of attendance of religious services and satisfaction with home /family with the intentions of moving abroad permanently. Positive attitudes toward migration and emigration self-efficacy have played the role of mediators in the relationship between the desire for change and the intention to migrate. Psychological factors have been conceptualized within the Triadic Influence Theory. Study limitation. The use of cross-sectional design, focusing only on intentions of permanent departure, not the behaviour itself, limitations of the Triadic Influence Theory. © 2019, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. All rights reserved.

university students Emigration intentions The Triadic Influence Theory

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