بررسي رابطه دنياگرايي و سلامت رواني

An Investigation of the Relationship between Secularism and Mental Health

The present study aims at defining the relationship between secularism and mental health. To measure the mental health, the GHQ-28 questionnaire - firstly presented by Goldberg et al - was used. To measure the amount of secularism, we also prepared a sixty-item questionnaire using Islamic sources. Both of these questionnaires were of a high and acceptable validity and reliability. These two questionnaires were conducted in the communities of seminary students and university students containing 267 subjects. The results showed a meaningful negative relationship between secularism and general health. Furthermore, there obtained a positive meaningful relationship between secularism and the type of education (seminary or university), showing a higher degree of secularism in university students than the seminary students. There was also a positive meaningful relationship between secularism and marital status; that is, there was a higher degree of secularism in single persons than married ones. The statistical sample was selected through cluster sampling. To investigate the hypotheses of the study and analyze the data, the following methods were used: T-test, Pearsonʹs correlation coefficient, analysis of variance, and calculating the quotient of validity using the SPSS software.