Investigating the Effect of Religious-National Beliefs on Vertical Individualism (Case Study: Citizens of Tehran)
Subject Areas : Family
Farshad NajafiAsadollahi
1
(Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran , Iran.)
majid kaffashi
2
(Associate Professor and Faculty Member of Sociology Department, Rooden Department, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Behrang Sedighi
3
(Assistant Professor and Faculty Member of Sociology Department, Rooden Department, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)
Keywords: religiosity, individualism, national flag (flag),
Abstract :
Individualism as a modern concept is one of the main features of modernity. What should be considered in the explanation and analysis of individualism is its various dimensions. In a kind of individualism, the individual pursues his personal self-interest, which is called vertical individualism. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of religious-national beliefs on vertical individualism. The present study is a descriptive-survey analysis in terms of its purpose. The statistical population of Tehran citizenship is over 25 years old in Tehran. The sample size was 400 with Cochran formula. The information was also collected by multi-stage cluster sampling. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire. The findings of this study showed that the relationship between religiosity variable and inverse vertical individualism and the correlation coefficient of 0.385 and the relationship between the national symbol (flag) and inverse vertical personalization and correlation coefficient equal to 0.456. Also, the correlation between the two religiosity variables and the national flag (flag) with vertical individualism was 0.725 and the coefficient of determination was 0.525 and the variables of religiosity and the national flag (flag) were 52.5% of the variation of the variable "vertical individualism" they do.
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