A study of relationship between educational styles and religious education with parents' religiousness rate

In order to study relationship between method of religious education and parents' religiousness rate with educational styles used in educating and fostering girls and boys, the present survey was done. To do this, 374 students (177 boys and 197 girls) were selected as sample. They completed questionnaires of "method of religious education", "family environment", "researcher-made", and "parents' religiousness rate". Analysis of data via One-way ANOVA indicated that mother's religiousness rate is more influential than other styles. Also, results of Post-hoc Scheffe's test showed that there is a significant difference between scores of styles (authoritatively and negligently) mother applied in educating children. In addition, research findings demonstrated that method of religious education is meaningfully different in boys and girls; frequency of girls in both methods – authoritatively and negligently – is high especially in the former, while frequency of boys is more than expected in the latter method. Using two-way Chi-square test it was found that applied educational styled adopted by parents are significantly different for education of girls and boys. Accordingly, girls' frequency in authoritative style is more than expected limit, while boys' frequency in negligent style is paramount. Furthermore, in "discussion and conclusion" section, role of educational styles and how religious lessons can be educated have been discussed according to findings of the research