Adherence to the Religious Beliefs and Its Role in Achieving Happiness and Mental Health

The present paper aims at the role of adhering to the religious beliefs in happiness and mental health among the students of Azad University of Arak. This correlation has a descriptive method. The population includes 144 employed female students of educational sciences major in B.A., M.A. and PhD. The sample includes 105 students that are randomly chosen based on Morgan`s chart. To collect the data three questionnaires were used based on Cronbach’s Alfa; Oxford`s happiness 943/0, general health 905/0 and religious-oriented questionnaire 863/0. To analyze the data descriptive statistics methods and inferential statistics method were used. One-way variance (ANOVA), Pierson`s correlation coefficient, multi variant regression and independent T were used. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between adhering to the religious beliefs and student`s happiness and moral health. And adhering to the religious beliefs and happiness can guarantee student`s mental health. Adherence to the religious beliefs can clarify the most important part of happiness and mental health.