Sociological analysis of determinants of attitude to Hijab(Case study: attitude to Hijab among 18-32 year-old women in Lali County)

This study, which is entitled "Investigation of social determinants of attitude to Hijab among 18-32 year-old women", is conducted through quantitative and survey approach by consideration of definition and behavior paradigms (rational selection, misleading labeling, distortion learning and subculture). Based on Cochran formula, statistical sample of this study consists of 300 18-32 year-old women living in Lali County and they are selected by unpredictable and purposive method. This research statistically analyzes effects of independent variables such as age, social status, religiousness level, family education, and amount of applied mass media on attitude to Hijab as dependent variable. SPSS software is used to analyze data; and tests such as Pearson correlation coefficient and bivariate regression are applied according to parametric and relative levels of hypotheses (except for the first hypothesis); and also two-way ANOVA is performed on subjects in order to analyze the first parametric and difference hypothesis (trivariate). According to obtained results of this research, there is a positive, direct, and significant relationship between other independent variables such as jobs, religiousness level, family education, and age, except for mass media variable, with attitude to hijab. Keywords: Social status, religiousness level, attitude to Hijab, and mass media