Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran
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PhD candidate of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran.
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Master of Educational Management, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran.
10.22080/sod.2023.25788.1013
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to measure the level of social alienation of students and to identify the factors that affect students' alienation. The research method is survey type. The population was the students of Golestan University, 313 of whom were selected and studied using stratified random sampling. To measure the concept of social alienation from Melvin Seaman's questionnaire (1959) and to measure the independent variables from the 12-question scale of hope to future Schneider (1991) with two subscales of passage and motivation and the social values scale of Gordon Childe and religiosity of Gluck and Stark, localized by Serajzadeh (1383) was used. The validity of the original instrument was confirmed by previous researchers and its reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α=0.932). The research results showed that the average social alienation among students was 2.250 out of 5, which is at a low level. Also, the importance of the factors of religiosity, trust, hope for the future and social values have a significant effect on the changes of social alienation.
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