Investigating the relationship between spiritual attitude and lifestyle with marital commitment in college students

Subject Areas : فصلنامه تحقیقات روانشناختی

Farzaneh Heydari ¹ , Parastoo Khosravi ²

1 - Master's student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-04-24 Accepted : 2023-04-24 Published : 2021-03-21

Keywords: lifestyle, marital commitment, married students, spiritual attitude,

Abstract :

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between spiritual attitude and lifestyle with marital commitment of students of the master's level of Islamic Azad University, Karaj branch. The current research was a descriptive-cross-sectional and correlational study. The statistical population of the research included all married students studying at the master's level of Islamic Azad University, Karaj branch in the academic year 2016-2017. A sample of 150 people was selected by simple random sampling. The research tools included spiritual attitude questionnaire (Parsian and Doninig, 2009), lifestyle questionnaire (Lali et al., 2011) and marital commitment questionnaire (Adams and Jones, 1997). Research data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression with SPSS version 26. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between spiritual attitude and its components, including self-awareness, the importance of spiritual beliefs in life, spiritual activities, and spiritual needs with marital commitment among married graduate students (P<0.05). Also, the results showed that there is a significant relationship between the overall lifestyle and its components (physical health, disease prevention, psychological health, spiritual health, social health, avoiding drugs and narcotics, and environmental health) with marital commitment (05/05). 0 > P); However, no significant relationship was found between the components of exercise and well-being, weight control and nutrition, and prevention of accidents with marital commitment (P<0.05). The results of the regression analysis also showed that the predictor variables of lifestyle and spiritual attitude simultaneously explained 37% of the variance of marital commitment among married graduate students.