Well-being and Tolerance among MA University Students

Razieh Aminalsadat, Abdolmajid Bahrainian

Abstract


The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Well-being and tolerance among MA students at Azad University. This research is practical in nature and correlation method was used. The population was about 281, who had been MA students at Azad University. The sample was randomly selected and it was about 159. Two questionnaire were used I this research .One of them was Well-being questionnaire (CD-RIS), and consisted of 25 items. The other one was Tolerance questionnaire that had 15 items. Gathered data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and independent t-test in descriptive and inferential statistics.  The result showed that there was a significant relationship between Well-being and tolerance variable. Furthermore, there was not a significant difference between females and males Well-being and their tolerance.

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