Substance addiction is damaging to the health of persons, families, and society. Often the person with addiction has decreased spirituality and religiosity and suffers from anxiety, depression, or both, increasing the risk for continued substance use and its concomitant negative consequences. The study purpose was to describe spirituality and religiosity, among persons enrolled in methadone mai...

How are the Big Two personality dimensions of agency (e.g., competence, uniqueness, ambition) and communion (e.g., warmth, relatedness, morality) related to religiosity? A standard view assumes that communion encourages religiosity, whereas agency is independent of religiosity. Our model is more nuanced, taking into account the Big Two’s motivational base as well as culture: Because communal in...

This study examined the relationship between self-deception and religiosity in two different samples: (1) fifty members of a non-denominational church, and (2) 54 students at a state university. The participants responded to Allport and Ross (1967) Religious Orientation Scale and the Paulhus (1984, 1998) Deception Scale. The results indicated that the nature of the relationship depends upon at ...

the place of a topic like ‘procedures for developing religiosity’, as a novel and innovative topic, seems to have been standing empty beside topic like ‘origins of religiosity’, and ‘the origin of religion’. the present article, after describing the content, use, and requirements of the topic under investigation, deals with introducing and categorizing paradigms of religiosity. in order to come...

islam has directly addressed the issue of business and considered it as one of the most significant issues in life. the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between religiosity and iranian entrepreneurs’ achievements using the multi-component religiosity scale proposed by khodayaryfard, et al. as well as the standards set for measuring the iranian top entrepreneurs’ achievem...

Many studies have found inverse correlations between intelligence and religiosity, intelligence and political conservatism, and intelligence and political extremism. Other studies have found that academics tend to be significantly less religious and more liberal than the general population. In this article, we argue that interdisciplinary differences in religiosity and political perspective amo...

This paper is a study on the concept of religiosity and national identity among the 598 young people in Baneh and Qurveh (Western cities in Iran) by a questionnaire. This survey method shows that the rate of religiosity based on Klark and Stark scale and a nation identity have significant relationship with different aspect. The independent variables of the research totally explain 41 percent of...

There is extensive empirical evidence that religion and spirituality are strongly linked with psychological wellbeing; however limited evidence exists for a sample of Muslim Asians. The present study investigated whether spirituality and religiosity are predictors of psychological wellbeing in residents of old homes. It was hypothesized that psychological wellbeing is predicted by spirituality ...

BACKGROUND Many religions underline the value of merciful acts, especially the care of the sick. The aim of the survey was to verify the hypothesis that a higher religiosity correlates with a more desirable ethical attitude towards patients. METHOD An anonymous questionnaire consisting of standardized tools: Scale of Attitudes towards the Patient (SAtP) (four dimensions: respect for autonomy,...

BACKGROUND The objective of this paper is to explore the connection between self-reported health and religiosity among Israeli Jews, using several self-reported health measures. METHODS Data were collected by two health surveys covering 1999 individuals in 1993 and 2505 individuals in 2000, representing the population of Jewish Israelis aged 45-75 years residing in urban communities in those ...