Investigating the relationship between students spiritual health and religious identity

Ayda Moghani¹

1) 1) Undergraduate student of educational sciences (expert in primary education) Farhangian Bint Al-Huda Sadr University Ardabil, Ardabil, Iran,

IOI Code : XEBH-GKFDE
Publication : 2nd National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents(cpcauma2.ir)
Abstract :
    This study examines the relationship between spiritual health and religious identity in students. The present study has been done by descriptive-correlation method according to its subject. Also, in terms of the time course of the project, The statistical population in this study includes all primary school students in Ardabil province, which in the academic year 1300-1499, their number is 125,000 and the statistical sample of the study includes 1062 primary school students in Ardabil province (531 girls and 531 boys by the method of Sampling of selected categories. The tools used in this study include the Glock and Stark (1965) religiosity questionnaire and the 20-item spiritual health questionnaire of Polutzin and Ellison (1982), in which the data distribution was normal for these two variables. The results of statistical analysis showed that the relationship between spiritual health and religious identity of students is positive and significant. It was also found that there was a significant relationship between religious health and religious identity which was inversely related to this relationship. But it was also found that existential health as one of the dimensions of spiritual health has no significant relationship with students religious identity. According to the research results, it is suggested that this research be conducted on school children and adolescents in addition to the age groups of youth, middle-aged and elderly.

Keywords : religious identity spiritual health religious health students