期刊名称：European Journal of Business and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2235-767X
出版年度：2016
卷号：4
期号：12
页码：58-66
出版社：European Society of Business and Social Sciences
摘要：Tolerance is an awareness of the diversity of race, religion,language, life styles, choices, and values and accepting thesenatural diversities of human beings. The concept of toleranceis an essential component of modern society and democracy. Thepresent study investigates the effects of religiosity and varioussocioeconomic variables on nine different tolerance topics forMiddle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) countries using thelatest Worlds Values Survey (WVS) database. A polychoric principalcomponent analysis was employed on tolerance variables to reducedimensionality. Using two deduced tolerance components, amultilevel analysis was performed. The findings reveal thatreligiosity has a negative effect on social tolerance; however, it hasno convincing effect on racial and religious tolerance. In contrast, theeducation level of an individual has no effect on social tolerance,while education has a positive effect on racial and religioustolerance.
关键词：Polychoric principal components; tetrachoric;correlation; multilevel analysis; tolerance; religiosity
