The Face-to-Face Survey of Zoroastrians in Britain 1987 - part 3
When the fifteen demographic variables, Gender to Permanent Immigrant, were correlated with the nine attitudinal variables, (NO responses) the following correlations were observed see Tables 4a-4g, for the correlation attitudinal variables (NO responses) demographic variables.
Table 4a shows that Cultural Conflict is positively correlated with Marital Status and Place of Education, (r = .19), and (r = .17) respectively, indicating that single respondents and people educated in the UK were more likely to report cultural conflict than those respondents who were married or were educated abroad.
In Table 4b it can be seen that the Ethnic Identity attitudinal variable is positively correlated with Language Think In, (r = .21), indicating that those Zoroastrians who think in English have a low ethnic identity. The variables Member of Zoroastrian House and Self-Description Zoroastrian have correlation coefficients of (r = -.30), and (r = -.27), indicating that those respondents who are members of Zoroastrian House, or who identify themselves as Zoroastrians, are likely to have a high ethnic identity. Ethnic Identity has three other negative correlations, with Marital Partner, (r = -.21), Practising Zoroastrian, (r = -.19), and Race & Religion Demarcation, (r = -.25), suggesting that those respondents who are married to Zoroastrians, or who say they are practising Zoroastrians, or who want to maintain the race and religion demarcation, do not score positive points on a scale that measures lack of ethnic identity; that is they have high ethnic identity.
Table 4c shows that the Religious Identity attitudinal variable is positively correlated with Level of Education, (r = .21), indicating that the higher educational qualifications of the respondent, the lower the religious identity. The Religious Identity attitudinal variable has one other positive correlation with Occupation, (r = .17), pointing to the fact that those respondents who have a high occupational status, have a low religious identity. The negative correlations, Practising Zoroastrian, (r = - 23), and Race & Religion Demarcation, (r = -.25), reinforce the fact that Zoroastrians who say they practice their religion and those who do not want to change the race and religion demarcation have a high religious identity.
In Table 4d it can be seen that the variable Symbolic Boundaries is correlated with Marital Partner, (r = .30), Practising Zoroastrian, (r = .27), and Race & Religion Demarcation, (r = .36), suggesting that those respondents who are married to Zoroastrians, or who say that they are practising Zoroastrians, or who favour retaining the race and religion demarcation, do not support opening the symbolic boundaries of the community. The Symbolic Boundaries attitudinal variable has one other significant correlation with Member of Zoroastrian House, (r = .17). The interpretation of this result is that being a member of Zoroastrian House is not associated with a willingness to open the community boundaries.
Table 4e indicates that the variable Perceived Racial Prejudice has one significant correlation with the Race & Religion Demarcation variable, (r = -.18), indicating that those respondents who support keeping the race and religion demarcation, say that they have not experienced racial prejudice.
In Table 4f it can be seen that the Symbolic Boundaries and Race attitudinal variable has significant correlations with Marital Partner, (r = -.34), Language Think In, (r = .22), Self-Description Zoroastrian, (r = -.27), and Race & Religion Demarcation, (r = -.22).
These results suggest that those respondents who were married to Zoroastrians, or who were practising Zoroastrians, or who supported keeping the race and religion demarcation, did not score highly on a scale measuring keeping group boundaries open during increased racism in the UK. On the other hand the respondents who thought in English were not in favour of closing group boundaries during increased racism in the UK, Language Think In, (r = 22). The Symbolic Boundaries and Race attitudinal variable has three other significant correlations with Member of Zoroastrian House, (r = -.16), Permanent Immigrant, (r = -.19), and Practising Zoroastrian, (r = -.16), indicating that those respondents who were members of Zoroastrian House, or who were living permanently in the UK, or who were practising Zoroastrians, were more likely not to support keeping group boundaries open under increased racism in the UK.
Table 4g shows that the Religious Knowledge attitudinal variable has one correlation with the variable Age, (r = -.18), suggesting that the older respondents have a greater knowledge of Zoroastrianism than the younger respondents.
There were no correlations at either significance level for the attitudinal variable Attitudes to Outsiders. This completes the analysis of the attitudinal variables (NO responses).