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Christensen and Sullaway's questionnaire of Couples' Communication Patterns, Jodayri's questionnaire of Islamic marital satisfaction and Janborzorgi's questionnaire of religious affiliation were used to measure the research variables.
comReceived: 2012-10-31 - Accepted: 2013-4-9 The Simple and Multiple Relationship between Religious Identity, Mental Health and Optimism among the Students of Shahid Chamran University- Ahwaz Najmeh Hamid 1 , Murteza Golestanipoor 2 , Farzad Karimnezhad 3 Abstract The aim of the present paper is to investigate the simple and multiple relationship between religious identity, mental health and optimism among the students of Shahid Chamran University-Ahwaz.
A descriptive method was used to study the Islamic sources and a survey on a sample of 430 subjects chosen from the seminary and university students in Qom was used to evaluate the validity of the scale.
Due to the effect of observation of religious injunctions on human life, especially the emotional and mental ones, the present paper aims at comparing marital adjustment and psychological well-being in prayer-performing people with that of non-prayer-performing people.
The results of the data analysis show that the difference observed between the prayer-performing and non-prayer-performing was statistically significant in the area of marital adjustment and psychological well-being.
MA of clinical psychology, Arak Azad Islamic University, sciences and research branch radi.
com MA of clinical psychology, Arak Azad Islamic University, sciences and research branch PhD student of psychology, Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute Noori1351@gmail.
Key words: research needs-assessment, relationships between religion and psychology, proposing operational model.