The effect of cultural values on critical thinking tendencies among students

The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effect of cultural values on critical thinking tendencies among students of Azad University using the correlation method. The statistical population included all the students of medical, humanities, technical and engineering faculties of Islamic Azad University, Sari branch in the academic year of 1401-1402 in the number of 8933 people, according to the table of Karjesi and Morgan, the number of 368 people was selected by stratified random sampling method. (according to the school) were selected as a sample. The tools of data collection were cultural values questionnaires by Mansouri Sepehr et al. (reliability: 0.88) and critical thinking by Pak Mehr et al. (reliability: 0.89). At the 95% confidence level (α = 0.05), the Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant positive relationship between cultural values and critical thinking tendencies in the students of each of the faculties of medicine, humanities, and technical and engineering. has it. One-way analysis of variance showed that cultural values and critical thinking tendencies among students of medical, humanities and technical and engineering faculties do not have statistically significant differences. Also, regression analysis showed that cultural values have an effect on students' critical thinking tendencies. So that cultural values explain (predict) 55.4% of critical thinking tendencies.