The Role of Peers in The Identity and Identification Process of Primary School Children From Student-Teachers’ Viewpoint

Document Type : Original Article

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Lecturer of Farhangian University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the role of peers in identity and identification process of primary school children aged 7 to 12 from Student –Teachers’ point of view, using a descriptive correlational method. The statistical population is composed of 300 students of Fatemeh al-Zahra University in Yazd. Sample size with Cochran formula is 169 and included 50 subjects. In this study, two simple random cluster sampling methods were used. The data gathering tool was a research made questionnaire with formal and reliable reliability. Correlation test results showed that there is a meaningful relationship between social factors (school, peers, and media) and identity. (sig = 0.001). Among these, there is the strongest relationship between peers and identity r = 0.499). Therefore, the school with a correlation coefficient of r = 0.417 is in the next rank, and the media with the correlation coefficient of 0.299 is the weakest relationship With identity. The results of the regression test showed that all three agents of the school, peers and the media can predict the variability of identity. For one standard deviation of school change, 0.210 standard deviation occurs. Also, for one standard deviation of peer change, 0.317 standard deviation occurs as well as 0.200 standard deviation occurs for one standard deviation of the media change. 

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