Female University Student's Islamic Covering; Finding out the Reasons of Their Carelessness about It and Ways of solving the Problem

The present paper seeks to find out the reasons why female university students are careless about Islamic covering and provide the ways to promote it among them, based on their own views. A descriptive- survey method was used in this research and statistical universe included female students of universities in Qom from whom 262 students were selected according to Morgan and Kerjesi's table through simple and classified random sampling, as sample. Two researcher-made inventories (with 18 items in Likert's scale with reliability of 0.78 and 17 rank ordered techniques with reliability of 0.89) based on Cronbach's alpha were used to gather data. The data analysis showed that cultural- doctrinal factors have positive and significant effect on female university student's carelessness about Islamic covering. Environmental-psychological, cultural-social, and sociopolitical factors have no positive and significant effect although their average scores were beyond expectations. The intensity of influence of different factors on carelessness about Islamic covering among university students is not significant. Making plans to fill the cultural and educational gap between schools and universities, enlightening public opinion, particularly female university students on irremediable consequences of improper covering, and promotion and strengthening the religious morale to commit to social values were the most prior strategies to promote Islamic covering among female university students, respectively.