Background and Purpose of Study: Adherence to religion is associated with a healthier lifestyle which affects people’s mental health. Mental unity is a key to health personality. Among value systems, religion is the most capable of creating this unity. The present research, therefore, aims to investigate how intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation related to university students&rsqu...

Achievement goal theory has emerged as a major new direction in motivational research. A distinction is made among conceptually different achievement goal orientations including the goal to develop ability (task goal orientation), the goal to demonstrate ability (ability-approach goal orientation), and the goal to avoid the demonstration of lack of ability (ability-avoid goal orientation). Scal...

Religion and spirituality play an especially important role in the lives of older adults and may have a positive impact on their mental health. Despite historically tense relationships between religion and psychology, there has been an increase in research concerning the intersection of these topics. Specifically, the relationship between religion and coping has been a major theme. Previous res...

This cross-country study adopts a competing theories approach in which both a value perspective and a social capital perspective are used to understand the relation between religion and a country's business ownership rate. We distinguish among four dimensions of religion: belonging to a religious denomination, believing certain religious propositions, bonding to religious practices, and behavin...

This article reviews the relation between social support and elder health, the social-support dimensions of religion, the relation between church attendance and elder health, the place of religion in the biopsychosocial model of medicine, and medical education's position on physician-patient communication about religion. It then examines the emergence of the topic of religion in actual visits. ...

C ulture is an internal and external representation of a person’s belief and value systems (Warren, 2008a), and it represents the person’s essence. Adolescents are a unique cultural group and have several layers of culture that comprise their individual beliefs, values, norms, and health experiences. These layers may include but are not limited to developmental stage, chronological and emotiona...

Background and Objectives: The organizational commitment of the staff that ensures their continuous and effective presence in the organization is one of the determinants of organizational development. Religion and religious orientation can affect organizational commitment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between organizational commitment and religious orientation in...