Explaining the Relationship between Religious and National Identity (Student Teachers of Farhangian University in East Azarbaijan Province)

The current state of global communication, the development and growth of technologies, the continuous cultural encounters and etc, has caused identity to become the main issue in social studies in various dimensions, including religious and national identity. This is especially important in Farhangian University, which is the heart of the country's education and responsible for the education of the country's future generation. This study has been carried out with the aim of explaining the relationship between the national and religious identity of the student teachers of Farhangian University of East Azarbaijan, which is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in terms of method. The statistical population of the study was all of student teachers in the academic year of 2023-24 in the number of 3990 people, the sample size was 351 people according to Morgan's table and proportionally including 141 female students and 210 male students that were selected by available sampling method. The research tool consists of two standard questionnaires of national and religious identity. Regarding the validity of the tool, face validity was used and the reliability of the tools was calculated using Cronbach's alpha test, 0.853 and 0.864 respectively. Pearson's correlation coefficient test and structural equations were used to analyze the data. The findings of the research indicate the high level of religious and national identity among student teachers in East Azerbaijan province. Also, this research showed that religious identity and its dimensions have a direct and significant correlation with national identity among student teachers.