Sociological Explanation of National Loyalty Among Teachers in Tehran

Today, every country demands loyalty from its people and considers the stability, strength and maintenance of its system to depend on the national loyalty of its people. All countries have extensive programs to educate people loyal to their system and country. After the family, the country’s education system is the second institution that is influential in educating the future makers of the country and can be effective in forming a sense of national loyalty and increasing it among students. In this direction, teachers play a decisive role as the arms of the country’s education system. From this point of view, measuring the level of national loyalty of teachers and factors affecting it can help policy makers in improving the level of national loyalty of the society. This research tries to answer the question of what are the factors influencing the sense of national loyalty of teachers in Tehran using a survey method. The statistical population of this research is all teachers of public schools in Tehran. Stratified sampling method and statistical sample size are 302 people. The results of the analysis of the structural equations of the research show that there is an inverse relationship between the feeling of national loyalty and the feeling of relative deprivation at the rate of -.186. Also, there is a significant positive relationship between the feeling of national loyalty with the variables of religiosity (.440) and hope to reform the country (.358). These three variables have been able to explain 67% of the variance of the national loyalty of teachers in Tehran.