Feeling threatened by the war in Ukraine: A study in Italy on identification, entitativity and attitudes toward the EU
Journal: Europe’s Journal of Psychology
Year: 2025

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 posed a practical and symbolic threat to EU citizens. Did this threat affect citizens' identification with the EU? This was the main research question addressed in the current paper. In addition, we sought to evaluate whether the influence of perceived threat on the identification with the EU was mediated by perceived entitativity of the EU. Finally, we expected perceived threat to improve participants' attitudes towards EU integration and enlargemen