Comparison of cultural attitude, belief system and critical thinking between teachers of Kurdistan region of Iraq and Kurdistan province in Iran

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of psychology, university of kurdistan

2 PhD student in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Sanandaj, Iran.

3 Master's degree in Educational Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30465/scs.2024.48921.2856

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The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the cultural attitude, belief system and critical thinking among the teachers of Kurdistan region of Iraq and Kurdistan province in Iran. This research was comparative- causal method and survey-descriptive in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the present study was all the teachers of Kurdistan region of Iraq and Kurdistan province in Iran. The statistical sample of the research was 350 people, and multi-stage cluster sampling method was used to select them. In this research, Hofstede's cultural attitude questionnaire (1980), Holland's belief system questionnaire (1998) and Ritex critical thinking questionnaire (2003) were used to measure the research variables. To analyze the research data, the MANOVA test was used using SPSS 22 software. The findings showed that there is only a difference in the subscale of cultural attitude (power distance) between the two groups of teachers in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Kurdistan province in Iran. There is no difference in the other subscales of the system of beliefs and critical thinking in the two groups of teachers in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Kurdistan province in Iran.

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