The Mediating Role of Religious Coping Styles in the Relationship between Religious Attitudes and Self-Concept with Addiction Tendency in Guilan University Students

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of religious coping styles in the relationship between religious attitudes and self-concept with addiction tendency in the students of Guilan University. Method: The study was a correlational design. A total of 530 students of Guilan University were selected by cluster sampling method and answered to the questionnaires of religious attitudes, coping styles, self-concept, and addiction tendency. Results: The results showed that the proposed structural model had a good fit and all predictor and mediator variables including positive and negative religious coping predicted 42% of the variance of addiction tendency in students, which was moderate. Positive and negative religious coping mediated the relationship between religious attitude and self-concept with addiction tendency. Conclusion: Positive religious coping leads to decreased tendency to addiction by intensifying religious attitude and neutralizing the destructive role of high self-concept.