A model for the improvement of life in twelve residential area of Islamic Azad University

Subject Areas : Educational Science

reza shaban nezhad ¹ , nadergholi ghourchiyan ²

1 - دانشجوی دکترای مدیریت آموزش عالی
2 - عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات

Received: 2012-06-25 Accepted : 2013-05-26 Published : 2013-06-22

Keywords: living quality at dorms, Islamic Azad University  ,

Abstract :

The present research attempts to provide a model to improve living quality in the dorms of the 12 districts of Islamic Azad University. The corpus studied in this research was all the students living in the dorms of these  12 districts of the Islamic Azad University, who were studying at different levels of education in the academic year of 1392-1393. Using a multistage cluster sampling method, 350 of these students living in the dorms were chosen. The "applied method"  from the target point of view and from the view point of type, "the Background method" were the methodologies followed in this research. Questionnaires were thus provided   to measure all the factors and elements affecting the living quality in the dorms both in the current and ideal situations. In order to interpret the obtained data, the frequency distribution tables, and bar charts as well as mean and standard deviation  techniqueswere used while Kolmogorov Smirnov test was applied to provide answers to the research questions. Besides, the discovery factor analysis methodology was followed to identify the major parameters while in order to devise the relevant model, "the structural equation modeling" technique was applied. The final results obtained through the research can thus be summarized as follows: -Technological, socio-cultural, psychological, physical anatomical, hygienic and man power parameters were the major elements affecting the living standard of the students staying at the dorms. -technology  affects the living quality both directly and through socio-cultural as well as psychological factors. -Man power affects the living quality both directly and through socio-cultural as well as psychological factors. -Psychological factors not only directly affect  the living quality but they also act as a medium relating the hygienic, technological and physical-anatomical parameters to the living quality. -Socio-cultural factors not only directly affect  the living quality but they also act as a medium relating all the other parameters to the living quality. -the hygienic factor does not have a direct effect on the living quality but it affects the quality of living through socio-cultural and psychological parameters. -the physical anatomical features do not have a direct effect on the living quality but they affect it through socio-cultural and psychological parameters.