Image of God and Paranoid Ideation in College Students

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Ali A. Hadadi Kohsar ¹ , Bagher Ghobari Bonab ²

1 - MA in Clinical Psychology
2 - PhD University of Tehran

Received: 2015-06-03 Accepted : 2015-06-03 Published : 2011-03-21

Keywords: college students, image of god, paranoid ideations,

Abstract :

In order to investigate the relationship between the image of God and the paranoid ideation, 469 students of Tehran Medical Sciences and Iranian Medical Sciences universities were selected by proportional sampling method. Participants completed the Image of God Inventory (Lawrence, 1997) and the paranoid ideation subscale of Symptom Checklist 90- Revised (Deragotis et al., 1973). Analysis of data using a multiple regression analysis indicated that the students' images of God predicted the paranoid ideation. Students with a positive and accepting image of God reported lower paranoid ideation, and students with a negative image of God reported higher paranoid ideation.