Journal of National Studies
Year:2021 | Volume:22 | Issue:3 (87)|Papers Count:8

The aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties of national self-confidence questionnaire. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population was the students of Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch. Based on a review of texts and literature related to national self-confidence, a 110-item questionnaire was prepared and then provided to 10 experts in the field of psychology, sociology, management and political science, and its face and content validity was confirmed. Then, a 110-item questionnaire was administered to a sample of 484 students who were available selected. By examining the share of each item in the total score, items that were lower than 0. 30 were removed and the number of items reached 98. The results showed that the reliability coefficient of the National self Confidence Questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha method (0. 964), halving method (0. 956) and Guttman method (0. 956) have good reliability coefficients in the student sample. Therefore, the National self confidence Questionnaire is a good tool for measuring national confidence and can be used for measurement.

Highlighting of many human values such as resistance, selflessness, peace, freedom, justice and etc. are possible in the shadow of sustainability literature and the textbook as an important media acts towards enhancement of educational objectives which can also improve students national identitiy wherein its attraction is on human values. In this regards, this media as one of the most important tools is dedicated for development of the culture of selflessness, resistance, jihad, and martyrdom. Therefore, the current research method in this study is based on descriptive and content analysis to assess the effectiveness of sustainability literature in the textbook of the first grade in Persian high school. The statistical population consists of Persian books of the first grade in high school and due to the nature of the subject of research and the limited statistical population, the population and statistical samples are considered the same. Results prove that the distribution frequencies of the sustainability text of Persian books associated to the first grade is not uniform. The results also show that the Persian books of the eighth and the seventh grades have the highest and the lowest volumes respectively in term of sustainability texts. In addition to, in the Persian books of all three grades, the components relevant to war and martyrdom have the highest frequency rate and the components relevant to peace and freedom have the lowest frequency rate respectively.

Sunnis in the Islamic Republic are one of the cultural groups which have influences in social relations. Cultural groups have many different capabilities, if we have good interactions whit them, we can benefit these capabilities, but if the interactions with them was not based on principles, it results in divergence. So, if we want to design appropriate strategies the first step is Understanding the general policies of the Islamic Republic in related with them. In the present study, we seek to discover and explain the general policies of the Islamic Republic from the perspective of Ayatollah Khamenei as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic in interaction with Sunnis. This study has been done with the grounded theory method and the data has been collected from his lectures, messages, commands and his political behaviors a bout Sunnis. In general, it can be said that the main axis of his thought is unity, which includes various dimensions.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of national Pride on social Adjustment with mediated cognitive emotion regulation Strategy. In this model, the national Pride was assumed as a exogenous variable, emotion cognitive regulation Strategies were as mediator variables and social Adjustment as an intrinsic variable. Therefore, five hypotheses were proposed. 263 undergraduate students (121 male and 142 female students) University of Mazandaran were selected through cluster sampling method. Then, three standard questionnaires, the National Pride Questionnaire, Social Adjustment Questionnaire and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire were used. Path analysis was used to examine the affection. The Results showed that in terms of direct effects, the standard beta of the path from national Pride to of emotion regulation positive Strategy and emotion regulation negative strategy at the level (p ‹ 0. 01) was significant. Standard beta of the path from national Pride to social Adjustment and from emotion regulation positive Strategy to social Adjustment is significant at the level (p ‹ 0. 01), but the effect of negative emotion regulation strategy on students' social adjustment is only significant at the level (p ‹ 0. 05). Also, mediating role of positive cognitive emotion Regulation strategies in the relationship between national pride and social adjustment has been confirmed.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the national and modern identity of Baluch students in Saravan. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the study was all Baluch students of the third grade of the second secondary school of Saravan city (Sistan and Baluchestan province) in the academic year 1300-1400 with a volume of 1093 people. 274 students studied by stratified random sampling (by gender and field of study). The data collection instrument was a questionnaire of identity dimensions (Solgi, Eskandari, Delavar and Borjali, 2015) which examined national and modern identities. Descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (one-sample t-test and t-test for independent groups) were used to analyze the data using SPSS21 software. According to the findings, the status national and modern identity of students was above average. Another finding of this study showed that girls had higher national and modern identities than boys.

Meaning is one of the essential aspects of a city's identity, and the loss of meaning or incompatibility of meaning with Islamic identity is one of the main cultural concerns in modern cities. The city image and its landmarks present cultural values to its audiences. According to these facts, cognition of the principles and components affecting the perception of meaning in city images and landmarks based on Islamic wisdom seem necessary. Since the achievement of semantic components in an Islamic city's image is considered, the Islamic Ideology will be significant. Thus, responding to the crisis of meaning in the environment and recognizing the process and components affecting the perception of Islamic meaning has presented a conceptual model of the Islamic definition of the city's image. This research was qualitative and descriptive-analytical. The relationship between concepts and components has been examined in a logical reasoning method using various sources. Based on the Islamic ideology values, the semantic components of the Islamic city's image have been concluded and finalized by the Delphi method in several stages by consulting experts. These components have been studied and compared in several commercial complexes in Tabriz city. The results indicate that the perception of meaning occurs when the messages of city image, cultural values, and mental schemas are in harmony. In conclusion, due to the lack of attention to the spiritual principles and concepts in the research samples, the received meaning does not correspond to Islamic values and schemas.

National identity is one of the bases of maintaining unity and integrity within a nation, and the governments are obliged to strengthen the components of national identity in the society in order to maintain the existence and integrity of the country. A way for educating students about national identity is through the codification of curriculum and textbooks in the schools. Considering that national identity means having a sense of belonging to a country in which the people have shared language, land, cultural heritage and customs, emotions and memories, political system, symbols, and national heroes, history, economic unity, art, literature, and even similar religion; this sense of belonging in a nation creates a kind of solidarity and unity. In this article, the existence of national identity components in the formal education of primary schools in Belgium has been studied, by analyzing the content of primary school curriculums and the answers of primary schools teachers to questionnaires containing 25 questions in three languages of English, French, and Dutch which were sent to 3140 primary schools in Belgium. The Educational questionnaires and phenomenological results of the Belgian government's political and sociological actions in the society show that the state is not only indifferent to the national identity and its consolidation but also seeks to consolidate national identity and nation-building based on the defined Belgian values. This article is based on library studies, obtaining information through a set of questionnaires and direct observation of the environment, using document-based, descriptive, qualitative content analysis and field studies.

The issue of technology acceptance has been studied by various scientists. Over the years, different models for technology adoption have been proposed; But none of these models analysed media technology acceptance technically. In this research, eleven experts were interviewed in the fields of social studies, media and communications to investigate especially the role of social capital factor in technology acceptance. These eleven attendees have been selected based on the opinion of experts and by snowball method during research. Finally, most of the interviewees claimed that all three factors; norm, trust and the network as sub-themes of social capital play an important role in technology acceptance; But in all these sub-themes, the factor of trust has been emphasized more than the others by the interviewees. This research attempted to take a new step in this field by presenting a local model of media technology acceptance.