religiosity and disorder: sociological analysis of the inhibiting role of religiosity in social disorder(A case study of soldiers of a military unit)

According to the general mandatory military service law of Iran, the male citizens of the community are faced with a phenomenon called mandatory service. Social order has high important in this situation. Given that young people are the most vulnerable to social abnormalities, therefore, it important to identify the factors involved in their prevention process. The goal of this study is to recognize the role of religiosity in determining disorder and deviant behaviors among soldiers. The statistical population of this study is composed soldiers of a military organization. This study is a survey-based quantitative study and the data collection instrument is questionnaires. The process of selecting the final sample has been based on classified randomized sampling, which has been distributed among 303 people based on the Cochran formula. Analysis of the two variables indicates a significant and reverse relationship between religiosity and Disorder. Also, the multivariate analysis shows that among the four dimensions, the belief dimension (-0.357) has the highest total effect on the Disorder, followed by the consequent dimension (-0.173), religious dimension (-0.133) and experimental dimension (-0.077) in the next influencing categories. Also, the coefficient of determination (R2) is calculated as 0/125%, which means that the four dimensions of religiosity are capable of predicting about 13% of the changes of “deviant behavior