Religious Attitude, Perceived Stress and Mental Health in smoker and non-smoker students. Authors: (Jafar Bahadori Khosroshahi , Touaj Hashemi Nosrat Abad, Jalil Babapour Kheyroddin)
Subject Areas : Health Promotion and Diseases
Keywords: religious attitude, perceived stress, mental Health, students, smoker.,
Abstract :
Abstract Smoking is a chronic phenomenon that affects physical, mental and social to follow, so that person is suffer a loss in the individual and social action. Religious attitude, perceived stress and mental health are differ in smoker and non-smoker students. The purpose of present study was investigating the religious attitude, perceived stress and mental health in smoker and non-smoker students. The study was case-control. The study sample included 200 students (100 smokers and 100 non-smokers) were selected as voluntary. Then participants were assessed with the Baraheni Religious Attitude Inventory, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). Data were analyzed using t test for independent groups and correlation coefficient. The results showed that there were significant differences between two groups of religious attitude, perceived stress and mental health. So that the mean of religious attitude and positive perceived stress in non-smoker students was significantly higher than smoker students and the mean of negative perceived stress and mental health in smoker students was significantly higher than non-smoker students. Also result showed that religious attitude in both groups have posetive relationship with positive perceived stress and negative relationship with negative perceived stress and mental health. On the other hand, mental health have negative relationship with positive perceived stress and have positive relationship with negative perceived stress. Result showed that with increasing student religious attitude and training strategies of better coping with stress, we can prevent individuals from addiction.