Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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MA in Islamic Psychology, University of Ethics and Tarbiat, Qom, Iran
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Assistant Professor of the Family Department of the Hozah and University Research Center, Qom, Iran
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Master of Cognitive Sciences, Cognitive Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
In the past decades, the attitude toward the family has changed in the fields of marriage, marital relation, and parenting in Iran. The influence of the family and the appropriate performance of its roles, especially the transmission of the values and culture of the society, are affected by the members' attitudes. Considering the importance of the family issue and the attitude toward it, the researcher tried to extract the components of the attitude toward the family in the three areas of marriage, marital relation, and parenting from religious sources, and based on the components, made the relevant questionnaire. The approach of the research is qualitative-quantitative, in the sense that in the qualitative part, the content analysis of religious texts was applied, and in the quantitative part, the research is a descriptive-survey one, which is used to measure the validity of the attitude components and questionnaire items. The purpose of the research is applied. In this research, first the concepts related to the family and attitude toward it were categorized, and the components related to the attitude toward the family were extracted using open coding and axial coding. To measure the validity of components and items, the ideas of experts of religious sciences and psychology were used. After the evaluation of the components by the experts, 32 components in three areas and ten dimensions were confirmed, and according to these components, 95 items were obtained for making the questionnaire. Then, to confirm the research data, confirmatory factor analysis and CVI were applied among a sample of 205 people, and to measure its reliability, Cronbach's alpha and split-half method were used. Their reliability coefficients were reported as 0.97 and 0.95, respectively, which shows that the questionnaire has a good reliability.
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