The role of faith in mental health and forming healthy personality according to religious and psychological literature

The study, by studying religious and psychological approaches, aims to explain how religious faith effects on mental health and shapes a healthy personality. This research has applied a qualitative, descriptive, analytical, and interpretational method. At first, the basic concepts of the study such as faith, personality, and mental health have been described and analyzed. Then, by referring to the religious and psychological literature, it has been studied how religious faith effects on mental health and shapes a healthy personality. The study findings showed that in the light of faith the organization of mind of a believer becomes full of knowledge and this makes him strong in reforming his relations with others. Also, the attitude dimension of a believer is directed in the way of Shariat and reason. And then, his behaviors which are influenced by his insights and tendencies are to be corrected. And in this way, the believer’s personality gains some sort of integrity and cohesiveness.