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...

This dissertation consists of three independent but related research articles dealing with religiosity, mental health, and children. The first uses the General Social Survey to perform the first large-N, non-conveniencesample analysis of the relationship between belief in God and sense of purpose. Using logistic regression analysis I find that there is a positive association, expanding our know...

We investigate the relationship between religion and trust. Using a questionnaire, we measure: i) general religiosity, and; ii) the extent of religious beliefs, experience, and ritual. These are then analyzed with behavior in a trust game (Berg et al., Games and Economic Behavior, 1995), which we also extend by providing information of a potential trustee’s religiosity in certain tasks. We find...

in this article, religiosity status of people and different social groups in the city of tehran based on clark and stark’s analytic and theoretical models have been considered. with regard to these two viewpoints, the main aim of this research is to study and identify faith, affection, rituals, conceptual and consequential of people’s religiosity. the main question is that whether results of pr...

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...

Early life experiences are likely to be important for the formation of preferences. Religiosity is a key dimension of preferences, affecting many economic outcomes. This paper examines the effect of college major on religiosity, and the converse effect of religiosity on college major, using panel data from the Monitoring the Future survey as a way of gauging the extent to which various streams ...

the relationship between religiosity, self-control and drug abuse     kazemi y [1] , nikmanesh z [2]    received: 18 oct, 2010 accepted: 8 mar, 2011   abstract background & aims: some investigations show that social disorders have been increasing in iran recently. examining related factors helps to reduce these disorders. the present study aimed to investigate the relationships between religios...