Moderating Role of Belief in the Life after Death in the Relationship of Islamic Spiritual Capital with Stress

Introduction: Current research was administered with the aim of studying the moderating role of belief in life-after-death on the relationship between spiritual capital and job stress. Method: Research method was correlation one and the statistical population comprised employees of a tile factory in Esfahan city, among them two hundred and forty persons were selected by accessible sampling. Research instruments were the spiritual capital questionnaire (ISCQ), belief in life-after-death questionnaire (BLADQ) and job stress questionnaire (JSQ). Date was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. Results: Results indicated that, there is a negative and significant relationship between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress, but there is not significant relationship between belief in life-after-death and Islamic spiritual capital. Also the results of hierarchical regression analysis revealed that belief in life-after-death moderates the relationship of Islamic spiritual capital and job stress. In the other word, when belief in life-after-death is in high level, there is a negative and significant relationship between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress. But when belief in life-after-death is in low level, there is no significant relationship between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the belief in life-after-death is an important factor in the link between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress.