The Survey of the level of education and age on southern women religious behavior

Subject Areas : Quarterly Journal of Woman and Society

M. صفاری نیا ¹ , A. آقایوسفی ² , H. ایمانیفر ³

1 - دانشِار دانشگاه پیام نور و رئیس انجمن روانشناسان اجتماعی ایران
2 - دانشیار دانشگاه پیام نور
3 - دانشجوی دکتری پیام نور

Received: 2014-05-18 Accepted : 2014-05-18 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: Women, Religious behavior, Psychology of Religion,

Abstract :

The aim of this study to investigate the effects of education and age on women religious behavior south of the country. The research Statistical population was all girls student of first year students UNTIL university students that subjects that were selected with cluster sampling of 750 students, which is available from 5 cities in southern country . for measuring religious behavior was used Nzaralany (1384) Improved test, with acceptable reliability and validity. Factor analysis of variance and post hoc Tukey test showed that women with higher diploma education religious behavior was significantly less than women with lower diploma education. Also, there was a significant negative relationship between religious behavior and age of subjects. The controversial results of this study along with the constraints of the need for further research in this area has to offer.