Exploring the Deterring Factors Affecting the Researches of the Seminary Students

The present research tries to identify the deterring factors affecting the researches of the seminary students in Qom, and to rank the solutions, according to the viewpoints of Qom seminary students in grade four. The research method is descriptive – survey, the statistical population is all seminary students in grade four, and the statistical sample is fifty seminary students who have been selected through simple random. The research instrument to gather data is a researcher–made questionnaire which consists of 35 items with 91% reliability, in order to identify deterring factors, and eleven solutions corresponding to the rank measurement with experts, face reliability. Chi-squared test and the design analysis of variance including one-way (F) have been used to analyze the data. The research findings show that cultural factors, policy making in research system, individual, bureaucratic–structural factors, the way of providing research services, and motivation have respectively deterring effect on the seminary students’ researches. The most significant deterring factors are, respectively, hard access to experienced and specialized professors to give guidance and advice on projects, seminary students’ different preoccupations with making a livelihood, and their little familiarity with research methods.