Religion & Communication (Feb 2021)

Predicting Students' Religiosity Based On Their Dependence on the Internet and Belief in a Just World

  • somayeh Tajik Esmaeili

DOI
https://doi.org/10.30497/rc.2021.75636
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 58
pp. 29 – 79

Abstract

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The purpose of this study is to study the level of religiosity based on Internet dependency and belief in a just world among secondary school students in Tehran. The type of research is applied, its technique is surveying and its measurement tool is a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study consisted of all second high school students in Tehran. The sample size was 384 by Morgan table and selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The findings of the study, based on a forward-stepwise regression study, showed that "the belief dimension and emotional dimension and the consequential dimension of religiosity" were negatively predictable only on the basis of unfair beliefs with an explanatory factor of 6.9 and 5.6 percent, respectively, and 3 percent, respectively It means that by measuring the amount of "unjust world beliefs" in people, one can predict the level of belief and emotional dimension and the consequences of religiosity in them, the impact of the dimensions of just beliefs and even the degree of Internet dependency in predicting religious beliefs, The following is a rhymes of religiousness "based on the" beliefs of the unjust world "Negative beliefs and the beliefs of the just world are positive for themselves and in total with a predictive coefficient of 14.3% (that is, by estimating the amount of unjust beliefs and beliefs of the just world in people, one can predict the degree of religious rituals in the country.

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