Explaining the Effect of Religious Orientation on Attitudes to Family Stability (Case Study: Citizens of Isfahan City)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 , Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Azad University, Faculty of Sciences and Research, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit, Tehran, Iran

10.30471/psy.2025.10959.2320

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the effect of religious orientation on the attitude towards family stability within the framework of quantitative methodology and using the survey method. The statistical population of the research was the married citizens of Isfahan city at the time of the study, 459 of them were selected and studied using the cluster sampling method. The tool of data collection in this research is a questionnaire and data analysis has been done at two descriptive and inferential levels. The findings of the research show that the attitude towards family stability among the citizens of Isfahan city is above average and in a relatively favorable condition. The results of the research also show that internal and external religious orientation can explain the variable variance of attitude towards family stability to a high extent. The effect of this variable and its dimensions on the attitude towards family stability is also direct and significant. In fact, the variable of religious orientation and its dimensions among a large part of the research population can strengthen the attitude towards family stability.

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