nimaqorbani

The purpose of the study was to delve into the role of self – knowledge procedures and religious orientation in "character strength". 315 students (227 male and 88 female) were asked to fill in the following questionnaires: Integrative Self-Knowledge Scale (Qorbani et al 2008), The Measure of Mindfulness (Brown and Ryan, 2003), The Revised Measure of Religious Orientation (Gorsuch and McPherson's 1989), and Values in Action Inventory, self – report questionnaire (Peterson 2004). The results revealed that there is positive correlation between character strength with integrative self – knowledge, mindfulness and individual intrinsic – extrinsic religious orientation. Regression analysis indicated that integrative self – knowledge, among afore – mentioned variables, plays the most effective role in determining various character strengths, moreover, among all forms of religiosity, intrinsic orientation was the only form to determine variety of character strengths. After controlling self- knowing procedures (applying hierarchical regression), intrinsic religious orientation succeeded in determining great deal of behavioral capabilities.

The present paper seeks to study the role of self-knowledge processes and big five personality traits in moral virtues. 315 university students completed following questionnaires: international personality item pool questionnaire, questionnaire of five big traits, short scale of self-control, the scale of integrative self-knowledge and questionnaire of moral virtues. The research findings show that virtues have positive correlation with big five personality traits (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience) self-control and integrative self-knowledge. Agreeableness and integrative self-knowledge are the strongest and conscientiousness is the weakest correlates of virtues. Furthermore, the intermediary role of integrative self-knowledge in the relationship between personality and virtues is proven but intermediate role of self-control is not proven. The research shows that the relationship between some personality traits and moral virtues are stronger than that of other personality traits. The research findings supports the idea that self-knowledge has intermediary role between personality and moral virtues.

The present research aims at comparing "transliminality" and consciousness processes which are rooted in the activities of frontal lobe taking into account the gender role, as well. So, 266 university students filled out questionnaires of self-cognition processes which included consciousness, cohesive self-cognition, and self-control. Data analysis shows that women have higher scores on "transliminality". Furthermore, the relationship between self-cognition processes is positive and strong, but the relation of subjects’ scores on "transliminality" scale with self-cognition processes is negative. According to these findings, "transliminality" - a kind of consciousness rooted in temporal lobe - has a reciprocity relation with self-cognition processes - which are forms of consciousness related to frontal lobe. Women’s higher scores on "transliminality" are ascribed to their higher spiritual tendencies.