Students' Attitude into Martyrdom (A Survey on the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad's Students, Presenting a Statistical Model)

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1 Assistant Professor, Psychology and Educational Sciences College, Ferdowsi University

2 M. A. in Statistics and Mathematics

3 Student in Philosophy of Education, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

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The present survey is to explore the attitudes of students to martyrdom including four categories such as the attitude to the concept of martyrdom, holy defense, seeking martyrdom and following from martyrs. It is also to find the influencing factors on the attitude and their predicting power is investigated, too. Research method - being used in this survey - was a case study. The statistical society involved in all male and female students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad at the second academic semester during 2008 to 2009. The number of people participated in the survey was 801 of students (285 male and 516 female) and were selected by cluster sampling method. To assess students' attitude to martyrdom a researcher-designed scale was used. Reliability of questionnaire was confirmed using the following methods; first, by conducting questionnaires which were repeated over time and second, by assessing Kronbakh alpha reliability with the coefficient 0.92. Findings, related to four categories of research, showed that students have a kind of semi positive attitude. But in three categories, i.e. holy defense, seeking martyrdom and following from martyrs, students did not reach to an acceptable level of agreement. Multi-variables regression analysis confirmed that religious and national identity were the only factors able to predict peoples' attitude to martyrdom; in comparison with national one, religious identity can better predict a persons' attitudes to martyrdom. Their ratio is 43% to 12% for each of them.

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