فصلنامه روانشناسی شناختی

The goal of this research is to investigate the effect of informal education on female and male students of Khurazmi University. The method of research is survey research. The scale is based on primary interviews, creating research questionnaire, investigating the facial and content validity of questionnaire and calculating the cronbach’s alpha of the questionnaire. Verifying the psychological aspects of the questionnaire, they are distributed among 850 male and female students equally. By removing the falsified questionnaires the 733 were investigated. The results imply that in factor analyses of the data, 13 factors (47.48%) have been identified. The performed comparative study of female and male students showed that the female students in religious studies, increasing religious knowledge, acquainting with globalization and political thought are standing in a higher level than male students. On the other hand, male students in considering the essence of religion and morality instead of religious rules, political views and activities, abuse of technology and cultural retardation are standing in a higher level than female students.