K. Beshlideh; Gh Maktabi; M. Taghi Pour; H. Shokrkon
Abstract
The present study was designed to investigate factors that attract students to praying. The statistical population of this study consisted of all day students attending junior high school. The sample included 1062 subjects from both sexes, who were selected by a random multistage sampling method. The ...
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The present study was designed to investigate factors that attract students to praying. The statistical population of this study consisted of all day students attending junior high school. The sample included 1062 subjects from both sexes, who were selected by a random multistage sampling method. The instruments used in the study were as follows: 1) Preliminary questionnaire about attractive factors with 70 items; 2) The main questionnaire made through factor analysis for the whole sample (31 items); 3) Two specific questionnaires for male and female students, with 38 items and 52 items, respectively. The results obtained from factor analysis for the whole sample revealed two strong factors; one factor with 18 items mostly related to incentive issues and the other factor with 13 items was seen to be attributable to humane relationship with students. The results obtained from discriminant analysis showed that three factors can be extracted for both genders separately. The internal consistency by Cronbach’s Alfa coefficient for the general, male and female questionnaires were 90%, 90% and 89%, respectively. To evaluate the hypotheses, some statistical methods such as t-test, one-way analysis of variance and the Scheffe test were applied. Analysis indicated that there was significant difference between sexes in GQ (P <0.028) and the difference favored female subjects. Another comparsion for SES groups revealed that the students of middle SES obtained significantly higher scores than low and high SES students. Finally a comparsion among three academic grades showed no significant difference in school performance.
