TY - JFULL AU - Bahram Esmaeili and Hossein Hosseini and Mohammad Sharifi Bohloli and Hamid Reza Imani Far and Sohrab Sadeghi PY - 2012/11/ TI - A Comparative Cross-sectional Study of Religious Behavior in High School and University Students T2 - International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences SP - 2691 EP - 2696 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15822 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 70, 2012 N2 - The purpose of this study was to investigate the religious behavior of students in high school and universality in Lamerd , a town in the south of Iran, with respect to increase in their level of education and age. The participants were 450 high school and university students in all levels from first year of junior high school to the senior university students who were chosen through multistage cluster sampling method and their religious behavior was studied. Through the revised questionnaire by Nezar Alany from the University of Bahrain (r = 0/797), the religious behavior of the subjects were analyzed. Results showed that students in high school in religious behavior were superior to the students of university (003/0>p) and there was a decline of religious behavior in junior high school third year students to second students of the same school (042/0>p). More important is that the decrease in religious behavior was associated with increase in educational levels (017/0>p) and age (043/0>p). ER -