Structural Equations Model of Hijab (Veiling) and Efaf (Chastity)Case Study: High School Female Students in Hamedan Province

This article, extracted from a research project, looks into various aspects of hijab and efaf and development of their structural equations model among high school female students in Hamedan province. The research method utilized here is survey and the data collection instrument is a questionnaire. The subjects are a group of 1069 students who were selected by multi-phase cluster and stratified random sampling. The most significant result of this study is that the two-sided relationship between hijab and efaf is a positive and significant one; i.e., there is a reciprocal relationship between them. However, the impact of the efaf model on the hijab model (0.74) is more than the impact of the hijab model on efaf (0.64) and its fit indices are stronger and better. The results of our structural equations analysis suggests that ‘belief’ is the most significant and latent predictor of efaf and ‘practical commitment’ and ‘awareness’ are the two other predictors respectively. Also, the latent predictor variables of hijab are ‘practical commitment’, ‘belief’ and ‘awareness’ respectively.