The Survey and Comparison of Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Dimensions of National Identity (Case study: The Secondry and High school Students and Freshman Students of Tehran)

The aim of this research is studying and assessment of cognitive and affective dimensions and also, the behavioral aspect of national identity as a new dimension and comparison of their developmental trend in the early and late of adolescense and early of youth. In this research, we used of the researcher made questionnaire of national identity, and cognition of symbols and myths. 700 students included 358 boys and 342 girls from third grade of secondry school and highschool of Theran and also public and Islamic Azad universities were selected with random cluster sampling method. Results of this study indicated that national identity has three cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions. Development of national identity showed decreasing trend from early adolescense to early youth but cognition of symbols and myths showed increasing trend. The mean of behavioral dimension was the most and cognitive dimension was the least.