Factors Related Feeling of Citizenship Among the Students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz

Citizenship is not just a situation in which a person has a set of rights and duties, but it serves the two ideas of situation and feeling. Feeling of citizenship is an important aspect of citizenship that plays a great role in strengthening social bases in a society. Feeling refers to view and attitudes, and citizenship in its full meaning is an attitude. Citizens should be such individuals whose behaviors benefit their community i.e. they should be good citizens. Citizenship feeling is a key motivation for the practice of citizenship. Thus, it is clear that feeling of citizenship has great importance in creating the status of citizenship and it is a necessity to prevent deep gaps in contemporary democracy and lots of social inconvenience has root in weak citizenship feeling. As amongst different groups in society - university students due to their population in Iran, special views and their effectiveness on the social attitudes - have great value, this article attempts to study and measure citizenship feeling among the students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz. The study is based on a questionnaire survey among 386 students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz using. stratified sampling method in term of faculty. In order to enhance validation of the respective questionnaire, face validity is used and in the research there applied Cronbach's Alpha test and the co-efficient obtained for reliability of citizenship feeling index is 0.76. Findings and variables such as parents education, as well as the proportion to which individuals follow and discuss the news, and social and political events have meaningful effects on the feeling of citizenship while variables such as sex, ethnicity, level of studies and field of studies have no meaningful effects on it.