The Impact of Adherence to Islamic Beliefs via Public Health on University Students’ Tendency to Drug Consumption
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 10
Abstract
In order to find out the impact of adherence to Islamic beliefs through academic achievement on tendency of university students to drug consumption in Payam-e-Noor University (PNU) of Ardebil ;a study was done among about 8000 Students studying in the second semester of current academic year ( 1388-2007 ) in Ardabil Payam Nour University ,but just about 400 of them were selected through cluster random Method as a statistical sample . Sample size was calculated in accordance with Gerjesy - Morgan table, where a is = 05/0. The research went on correlateddescriptive method. Required data was collected using the following questionnaires: 1) A questionnaire related adherence to Islamic beliefs with reliability &=0.98; which includes some components such as obligation to saying prayers (&=0.93); practicable obligation to fasting (&=0.94); practicable obligation to divine legal orders (&=0.96), and practicable obligation to having relation with religious people .(&=0.92) .2) Questionnaire related to drug consumption with reliability &=0.86 ; which includes some components such as family factor (&=0.67); social environmental factors (&=0.59); friends (&=0.63), and personal characteristics (&=0.78). For achievement, the students previous term average score and total average were used collected data was reported descriptively, however, the main questions of the research were analyzed inferentially using linear analysis. The result showed that: there is a direct negative and significant relation between adherence to Islamic beliefs and drug consumption. Total indirect impacts of adherence to Islamic beliefs on student’s tendency to drug consumption was-0.06 , which is a very low rate. The total indirect impact of public health disorder on students’ tendency which was about -0.0006 seems negligible.
Authors and Affiliations
Valiollah Khoshtinat| Assistant Professor and faculty member, Department of Theology and Islamic Sciences, Payame Noor University (PNU), I.R, Iran.
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