Dissertation for Master's Degree in Psychology (M.A)

Tension: General

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between the perception of God and social identity in the lifestyle of students and employees of the Islamic Azad University of Dere Shahr city and tries to answer the question whether there is a relationship between the above-mentioned components or not? The statistical community includes all students and employees of Dere Shahr Azad University, descriptive research method Contextualization and descriptive and inferential statistics such as Pearson's correlation coefficient and t test have been used to analyze the data, the data collection tool was through three types of questionnaires including standardized questionnaires of lifestyle, identity and perception of God. Simple random sampling method and sample size according to Morgan's table is 120 people. The research findings showed that with 95% confidence, it can be said that lifestyle variables and social identity have a significant and positive linear relationship, while the linear relationship between lifestyle variables and perception of God is not statistically significant. Also, there is a positive relationship between social identity and perception of God.

Key words: social identity, lifestyle, perception of God

1 Introduction

Progress The ever-increasing and rapid development of the world and, accordingly, the societies and countries, as well as the change in the customs of life, have led to the definition of the style and way of life. Without knowing how to live, people get confused and in fact have no identity in the sense of properly discovering life, its purpose and the role of a person to access it. The role of understanding God in living right and discovering the individual character and identity of people in societies with a perfect religious source like Islam can be significant. From the point of view of psychology, the perception of God is a cognitive-emotional pattern that is formed through the child's first interactions with the important people in his life and his caregivers, and is renewed many times throughout his life along with the development of the person's psychological maturity. This pattern guides the direction of the person's behavior and feelings in relation to God. Therefore, the perception of God is a coherent set of the last level of the person's perception in abstract and transcendental matters. Also, if it is about knowing people in their personality. If we want to choose a psychological structure in order to find out many psychological characteristics of people by examining it, then the person's perception of God and the image he has achieved is very important. (Lawrence, [1] 2010) The trend of new ways of social behavior to fill life spaces (for example: paying attention to different media, body management, focusing on the body, etc.) individualization, finding the importance of life policies based on different lifestyle preferences, are among the main areas that have put new conditions in front of people, which means that these changes that occur in the form of cultural globalization, in addition to influencing Taste, taste, spending free time and finally the lifestyle of people have influenced their attitude towards themselves and society and their level of social identity. (Kafashi et al., 1389) In general, in such a social environment, in addition to the different lifestyles chosen by people, the process of globalization has also caused a change in the sources of identity and identity selection of people. (Khwaje Noori et al., 2019) The importance of this becomes clear when we know that without a lifestyle and social identity, that is, without specific frameworks that reveal similarities and differences, the people of a society will not have the possibility to establish a meaningful and stable relationship among themselves. (Kafashi et al., 2009) Also, understanding what and how you are compared to others, which is a characteristic of identity, is very important not only in the psychological structure of individuals but also in the struggles of human society. Traditional and finally the crisis of personal and social identity of people. In this matter, people acquire their identity instead of traditional sources of identity, through the consumption of goods and different lifestyles. (Rezaei, 2010) Iran, like many countries, is undergoing changes, but since such changes (which have taken place in the West under the name of modernity and globalization) through the world of information and communication and not in a suitable cultural context, it has entered various parts of the world, including Iran.(Rezaei, 2009) Iran, like many countries, has undergone changes, but since such developments (which have taken place in the West under the name of modernity and globalization) have entered different parts of the world, including Iran, through the world of information and communication and not in a suitable cultural context, it has created crises in people's lives (Khaje Nouri, 2010). It has diversified more than the rest of the society groups to the point where the culture and identity of the youth has become one of the main concerns of the system and the cultural policy makers have to increase the influence of the official cultural institutions and organizations in this field. (Shalchi, 1389) In other words, because young people have wider social relations compared to other groups and strata, and they are more familiar with the manifestations and means of modernization of globalization, as well as new ideas and identities, they are exposed to identity changes more than others, in addition, considering that about 60% of the population of our society are young people. (Kalantari and Hosni, 1387) and in general, the undeniable political, social and cultural function of the youth in the process of public developments, the study of how to develop their social identity and their perception of God, as well as the influence of these two concepts on the lifestyle, seems very necessary. and in the scientific and academic community, most of the researches have been investigated in a one-dimensional way, but considering the complex nature of humans, it seems that several factors affect the formation of each person's behavior. In this research, an attempt has been made to examine the impact of important components such as identity and perception of God and its related branches, and to show their impact on lifestyle.

In this article, an attempt has been made to explain and analyze the same issue, which is one of the prominent aspects of this research.

1-2- Statement of the problem

Is there a relationship between perception of God and social identity And is there a lifestyle component in the students and employees of Dareh Shahr Islamic Azad University?

Research and research on human characteristics is a complex issue because it is a very difficult task to accurately express and explain different aspects of a human being in the form of and based on available information and multiple opinions. God is very small and does not reach the number of fingers. Also, regarding the lifestyle, the studies conducted are mostly in the theoretical fields and less have attempted the experimental test of this process. In this part of the article, we will review the research that has been done in this regard in the past.

The theory of social identity began with the work on the classification of social domains (Bourke and Clovis [2], 2007). This theory emphasizes that behavior reflects the larger social characteristics of people, which means that active social structures such as groups, organizations, cultures, and most importantly people with these collective elements of identity. they find This point of view strengthens the idea that people's social cognition is interpreted based on their groups or individual's collective frameworks (Padilla[3] and Perez, 2010). According to this theory, people's images of themselves are formed from the reactions received from their own behavior as well as from others. The identity of these images, which is received as feedback from others, grows and develops. Leisure time (as a builder of lifestyle) provides a context through which people can establish their identity and express it to others (Ghobari Bonab, 2018).

According to the theory of participation, leisure time not only affects the individual's identity, but is also affected by it. (Kampel [4] 2007) Max Weber, who is one of the other theorists in this field, based on his multi-dimensional definition of social stratification and emphasis on status as one of the dimensions and components of stratification, uses lifestyle modification, and according to him, lifestyle is a special way of life, and social groups use it to distinguish themselves from others and gain status (social identity) (Rabbani Vashiri, 1388)