ابعاد رابطه ميان جهت گيري مذهبي و سلامت رواني و ارزيابي مقياس جهت گيري مذهبي

Aspects of Relationship between Religious Orientation and Mental Health & Assessment of Religious Orientation Scale

To investigate the aspects of relationship between religious orientation & mental health, mental disorders, self-esteem, anxiety and also to assess the ability of diagnose and clarify of religious orientation scales, a series of research in two-year program were performed and gathered the results. 316 subjects in 7 groups in both genders were participated in these research in which just one group consists of women of Hoze Elmieh. To investigate the mentioned aspects, The General Health Question aire (Goldberg, 1978), The Anxiaty(state-trait) Inventory(Spielberger, 1983), The Self Esteem Measurement (Coopersmith, 1967), The SCL90 Scale(Deragotis, Lipman and Covi, 1973), The Religious Coping Question aire(Pargament, 1990), The Religious Orientation Scle (BahramiEhsan,1381) were used. The results showed that religious orientation has relationship with increase in mental health and the decrease of mental disorders and it is able to predict positively religious coping. There is a positive relationship between Selfesteem and religious orientation. In addition the current results showed the Religious Orientation Scale is able to discriminate groups with different religious orientation and this object can be used as an evidence of the discrimination validity of the scale.