Predicting the religious identity of children based on interactiv family patterns, parental religiosity and critical thinking of adolescents

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns, parental religiosity and tendency to cognitive thinking in children. The statistical population of the first and second grade girls was high school students in Qom. The sample included 447 students of humanities, mathematics and experimental, which were selected by available sampling method. The research method is descriptive and in terms of the relationship between variables is a correlation type. For collecting data, the Parental Religious Questionnaire (Grankvist 1998), Family Communication Patterns (Richie Fitzpatrick, 1990), Critical Thinking (Rickets, 2003), and Religious Humor (Lotf Abadi, 2002) were used .Pearson correlation analysis and stepwise regression were used to analyze the data.The results showed that the variables of parenting religiosity, the dimension of creativity from critical thinking and conservation orientation, has the potential of predicting the religious identity of adolescence. Other variables include the dimension of perfection and commitment of the critical thinking variable and the dimension of the alignment orientation no entered into the equation .

Keywords

• key words: religious identity
• parental communication patterns
• parental religiosity
• critical thinking