The ralationship between dimensions of religious orientation,mental health and pyschological disorders

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Hadi Bahrami Ehsan ¹ , Sheema Tamanaefar ² , Zainab Bahrami Ehsan ³

1 - PhD Tehran University
2 - Postgraduate Student University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
3 - Postgraduate Student Gillan University

Received: 2015-06-07 Accepted : 2015-06-07 Published : 2005-09-23

Keywords: mental health, Religious orientation, Psychological Disorder,

Abstract :

In order to study the relationship between religious orientation and ment       Tehran University undergraduate students answered the Reli-     
 Revised (SCL-
-R). The Religious Orientation Scale measured four dimensions of religiosity including: religious orientation, disorganized religious orientation, valuing religious orientation, and hedonistic religious orientation. The SCL-
-R measured nine symptoms, including somatization, obsession, sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia, paranoia, and psychosis. Data showed that the four religious dimensions decrease the symptsoms and improve the mental health.