An analysis on adolescents’ religious behavior and related elements in Kerman high schools

This research has been conducted for analyzing the religious behavior of   high schools students in Kerman (an eastern city of Iran) . The goal of this article is to measure
the  relation of  sex, type of school, students’ grade with religious behavior and also to analyze the relation and  correlation of any religious behavior with the another.
The method of research was descriptive of correlational type and the way of gathering information was through questionnaire dsigned according to basic religious knowledge of a high school students . The validity of the research method and its constancy were measured 84% and 95%.
 The statistical universe included 94 high schools (50  girls’ high schools  and 44  boys’ high schools) in which 37 national and private high schools out of 94 were selected according  to systematic sampling, then 15 students of each school were selected according  to random sampling. Collected data were used to analyze the students’ religious behavior through using relative frequency and absolute frequency tables.
 
Also  through using   Spirman  and Pierson correlation coefficient  the relation of sex,  type of school, students’ grade with religious behavior and also the relation and  correlation of any religious behavior with the another  were analyzed .
The results of this research show that: 92.2% of students  demonstrated  appropriate religious behavior  There is a meaningful relation between religious behavior and sex, type of school but there is not  a meaningful relation between religious behavior and students’ grade.