Relation of University Variables and Students Attitude towards the Religion

Nourbakhsh, Younes; Talebian, Hamed; Mowlaei, Mohammad Mahdi

doi:10.22059/jisr.2014.52463

Relation of University Variables and Students Attitude towards the Religion

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

¹ Assistance Professor,Sociology, University of Tehran, Iran

² Lecturer of Communication Studies in Culture, Art & Communications Institute, Iran

³ Former Ph.D Student, Futures Studies, University of Tehran, Iran

10.22059/jisr.2014.52463

Abstract

The goal of this article is the measure of relation between some university variables and attitude towards the religion. It has tried to answer this question whether there is a significant relation between several university contextual variables and attitude towards the religion. There are plenty of definition for attitude whereas in most of them attitude is presented with having the components of cognition, sympathy and behavior. By this basis, it is measured by three dimensions of cognitive, sympathetic and behavioral. Among the university contextual variables is also considered to “type of university”, “type of students’ residence”, “field of study” and “the number of semester attendance in university’. With statistical community of 2555, research is done with survey method. The findings have indicated there is a significant relation among all dimensions of attitude towards the religion, type of university and type of residence in study period. In contrast, there is no significant relation between field of study and attitude towards the religion. The behavioral dimension score of attitude towards the religion among the humanities students is higher than others. Thus, the results of this research refuse the dominance current notion in political sphere of Iran country that studying in humanities points students in the direction of secularization. Findings also indicate although there is the relation between the attitude toward the religion and the number of semester attendance, this relation generally is so weak, hence, it could not be interpreted university in Iran as an institute in direction of reducing the student attitude towards the religion.

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