Background. For years, researchers have sought to provide a clear definition of spirituality and its features and consequences, but the definitions provided of this concept still lack transparency. The present qualitative research was conducted to clarify this concept within the religious-cultural context of Iran. Materials and Methods. The present conventional qualitative content analysis was ...

Many studies have explored the links between family structure, parental religiosity, and youth religiosity, but results across studies have been inconsistent and have largely ignored new diverse family forms. Using data on 2,320 youth and their parents from the National Study of Youth and Religion, this study focused on whether and why religious transmission from parents to youth varies among d...

God's perceived closeness (GC) is greater when the attachment system is activated. This conclusion is based primarily on adult studies, but some findings suggest its validity also in childhood. Adult studies have shown GC to vary in relation to security of attachment, but child studies have been few and methodologically limited. In this study, we tested differences between securely and insecure...

This study aimed to explain spiritual growth and explore its dimensions in patients with cancer. In this qualitative study, conventional content analysis was used for collection and analysis of data. The 12 patients that qualified for this study were selected from among patients with different types of cancer, referred to the two large teaching cancer hospitals in Tehran. Six main themes and 11...

Empirical studies have identified significant links between religion and spirituality and health. The reasons for these associations, however, are unclear. Typically, religion and spirituality have been measured by global indices (e.g., frequency of church attendance, self-rated religiousness and spirituality) that do not specify how or why religion and spirituality affect health. The authors h...

BACKGROUND Nursing education is both formal and informal. Formal education represents only a small part of all the learning involved; and many students learn more effectively through informal processes. There is little information about nursing student informal education and how it affects their character and practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS This qualitative study explores undergraduate nursin...

Probabilistic graphical models allow us to encode a large probability distribution as composition of smaller ones. It is oftentimes the case that we are interested in incorporating model idea some these distributions likely be similar one another. In this paper provide an information geometric approach on how incorporate and see it allows reinterpret already existing models. Our proposal relies...

the mysticisms origin is taken from the lyrical poetry and has been that a means for explore of his meaning. as the great sufi, ibn arabi this is done and properly, technically the lyrics which we see in the tarjoman-al-ashvaq are  the most of his odes of perfection and sophistication, and is rich in metaphors and efficient mysteries of the poem.correctlly, tarjoman-al-ashvaq is interpretation ...