جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Religious Beliefs » در نشریات گروه « علوم تربیتی »

The present research is aimed at investigating the consequences of selection and appointment methods of school principals on their performance in Karkheh city. This research is an explanatory combination. In the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire with face validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.97 was used.  According to Morgan table, the sample size was 132 persons, and to get more accurate results, the questionnaire was distributed among 186 teachers. In the qualitative section the interviews with 18 selected executives and principals based on the selection and appointment methods were continued until theoretical saturation was reached.  One-sample T-test was used to analyze quantitative data. In the qualitative part, open and axial coding was used. In the quantitative part, the average performance of principals was determined in four aspects including guiding teachers to improve their efficiency and effectiveness, creating a calm and intimate environment, providing the necessary facilities and equipment, and strengthening religious beliefs among above average students and establishing constructive relationship between the school and below average community.  In the qualitative part, after collecting data and then open and axial coding, the weaknesses of the selection and appointment method were identified in 3 main factors including "criteria", "execution", and "skills”. The results of the quantitative analysis showed that the performance of principals who were selected based on the selection and appointment method was satisfactory.  Also, the weaknesses of the selection and appointment method were determined by the qualitative results of the research. Through overcoming those weaknesses, proper selection of the principals will improve.

The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of religious beliefs on female students’ resilience in the 1st grade of high school in district 1 of Shiraz. The research method was descriptive correlation. The statistical population of the research consisted of all 9200 female students in the 1st grade of high school in the district 1 of Shiraz in 2022-2023 among whom 360 students were chosen by random cluster sampling. Data collection instruments in this research were Glock & Stark Religious Beliefs Scale (2003) and Samuels Resilience Scale (2004). Their validity and reliability were calculated and confirmed by object analysis and Cronbach’s alpha respectively. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (average and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis) were used. The results indicated that there is a significantly positive relation between religious beliefs and resilience. Moreover, religious beliefs are considered as a significant predictor for students’ resilience as their religiosity predicted 36% of their resilience variation. Besides, theological, emotional, consequential, and ritual aspects determine 36.5% of their resilience variation. The beta level of theological, emotional, consequential, and ritual aspects is significant and can positively predict the students’ resilience. Therefore, it can be concluded that religion and religious instruction have a noticeable role in increasing the students’ resilience and creating calmness and security for them. In this regard, enforcement of religious attractions by holding educational, religious, and cultural programs to improve students’ religious attitude is suggested.

Job burnout is a psychological syndrome and is most commonly seen in occupations that have long been associated with humans. the purpose of this study is to predict the burnout of elementary teachers based on religious beliefs and mindfulness with regard to the mediating role of resilience. The purpose of this study is descriptive and correlational. the statistical population consisted of elementary school teachers in Yazd in the school year of 2021-2022. Using simple random sampling method, 299 teachers were selected based on Cochran formula. information was collected using the four Maslach Burnout Questionnaires (2014), Connor-Davidson Resilience Questionnaire, Freiburg Mindfulness Questionnaire (2006), and Ganji and Nayebzadeh's religious beliefs (2014). Also, Data were also analyzed Path analysis analysis and Sabel test. The results showed that there is a linear and inverse relationship between the variables of religious beliefs, mindfulness and burnout, and the higher the resilience criterion in teachers, the lower the burnout of teachers. thus the variables of religious beliefs, mindfulness and resilience predict the burnout of Yazd elementary school teachers. In addition, the findings showed that mediation resilience is a relationship between religious beliefs and job burnout, and mindfulness predicts job burnout directly and indirectly

The purpose of the present research is to identify theological-moral harms resulting from digital lifestyle. It is a qualitative study conducted by semi-structured interviews with a sample consisting of 10 university and seminary professors, counselors and judges in a family court, as well as 20 members of families suffering from digital lifestyle who had referred to a family court. The results showed that access to immoral information, not pursuing theological and moral issues related to children, lack of communication between parents and children, doubt in religious beliefs, and uncertainty in following religious rules lead to some harms such as identity crisis, decline of religious beliefs, social isolation, and weakness of religious, moral, and national values. Comparison between interview results with experts and families revealed that some new aspects of theological and moral harms as a result of digital life style are being created in families and their children which can be summarized as follows: theological-moral consequences from the view of experts: spreading fake and unreal content, teaching unethical concepts and giving inappropriate information, lack of attention to moral issues, new life style, changing the belief and mentality of teenagers, lack of a comprehensive cultural plans; moral and social harms from the view of families: identity crisis, decline of religious beliefs and norms, addiction to cyber space, and social isolation.

The present study was done with the aim of presenting a causal model of the religious beliefs performance and educational citizenship behaviours with regard to the mediating role of academic ethics. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the study included all upper secondary girl students in khorramabad city to 9981 students, of which 240 were selected based on stratified random sampling method. To collect the required data from academic ethics hosseini nezad et al (2016), educational citizenship behaviours golparvar (2009) and religious beliefs performance golzarei (2002) was used. Data analysis was performed by the SPSS-22, and AMOS-24 software. The results showed that religious beliefs performance has a direct effect on educational citizenship behaviours and an indirect effect on educational citizenship behaviours through academic ethics. In addition, academic ethics had a direct effect on educational citizenship behaviours. In order to obtain specific examples of ethics in educational environments, we need to follow religious beliefs, which can explain moral orders in a specific case with specific limits, conditions, and accessories.

Political participation as one of the major indicators of development is a very important function of people's unique personality-interactive traits, particularly among students. The present research was conducted with the aim of examining the mediatory role of religious beliefs in the relationship between students' personality traits and their political participation. This descriptive-correlational research applied the methodology of structural equation modeling. The population included all the students of Ardakan University in the academic year 2020-2021. 300 students were selected among them by the convenience sampling as the sample. The NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) (short form) (McCrae & Costa, 1992), the questionnaire of political participation (Farajzadeh, 2014), and the questionnaire of religious beliefs (Khodayarifard, 1995) were used for collecting the data. The data analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics and showed that the personality traits of neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness have a significant direct effect on political participation among students (P<0.05); while the personality trait of flexibility does not have a significant direct effect on political participation (P<0.05). In addition, religious beliefs have a significant direct effect on political participation (P<0.05). The personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness, flexibility, and conscientiousness also have a significant direct effect on religious beliefs among students (P<0.05); but the personality trait of neuroticism does not have a significant direct effect on religious beliefs (P<0.05). Moreover, religious beliefs significantly mediate the relationship between the personality traits of extroversion, agreeableness, flexibility, and conscientiousness and political participation among students (P<0.05).

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 Rational agency and belief in divine values ​​is the elixir of moving forward, resilience, uplifting and value-creating in individual and communal human life in the digital age. The present study was conducted with the aim of analyzing the perception and lived experience of senior high school students about the role of cyberspace in transforming their religious beliefs.

To achieve this objective, a qualitative approach and a descriptive phenomenological method were employed along with interviews with email and open-ended questions. The participants were chosen using the snowball sampling method within the research field, which consisted of female students in senior high school, between 15 and 18 years old, residing in districts 1, 16, and 20 of Tehran. The semi-structured interview process concluded after the 15th interview, upon reaching saturation. Data were analyzed using the MAXQDA software based on Colaizzi’s method. In order to increase the reliability, credibility, and confirmability of the data, the methods of “investigation and review in the time of coding”, “using the opinions of research colleagues”, and “long-term immersion” were utilized. The findings led to the identification of 85 significant statements, and the classification of 15 sub-themes and 5 themes, including cognitive, doctrinal, behavioral, emotional, and practical themes.

By investigating the views and experiences of students in facing the cyberspace and the expansion of its use during the Covid-19 pandemic and afterwards, significant and sometimes worrying changes have occurred in the students' religious beliefs in all five mains cognitive, doctrinal, behavioral, emotional, and practical dimensions.

The right upbringing and setting the ground for the promotion of beliefs and agency for religious teachings in the students studied does not have a satisfactory condition; rather, with the influence of diverse factors, especially the content and values ​​common and dominant in the cyberspace, it has been accompanied by extensive changes in the opposite direction of the expected religious beliefs. It seems that the existing trend of facing with and accessing to the cyberspace, without intelligent management of teenagers, with all levels of content and lack of attention close to passivity to the content presented and released in the cyberspace, which according to the evidences has worked more effectively in schools, can undermine the foundation of students' religious beliefs. It is important to pay serious attention to teaching media literacy to parents and teenagers; creating a basis for giving functionality to the incentives and actions of all educated people and those concerned with education, including teachers, lecturers, professors, trainers, counselors, psychologists, sociologists and cultural promoters for the public production and republishing of the noble and original content in accordance with the cultural teachings of our country; and especially its publication and dissemination based on entertainment and educational principles, even so late, can provide a basis for reducing the risks of this highly effective and original space known as cyberspace and free the society from some of its dangers.

< p >The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of meaning of life and religious beliefs with the type and extent of acute stress reactions after the disclosure of spouse''s infidelity. This correlational study was a descriptive research. The population was couples who had been involved in infidelities and had referred to the courts and family counseling centers in the cities of Tehran and Saveh in the years 2020-2021. 172 people were purposefully selected among them as the sample. The data collection tools were Stanford Acute Stress Reaction Questionnaire (SASRQ), Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) and Glock and Stark''s dimensions of religiosity. The data were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. According to the results, the extent of acute stress reactions after the disclosure of spouse''s infidelity had a negative significant relationship with meaning of life and its dimensions, including the existence of meaning and seeking it, and religious beliefs and their dimensions, including beliefs, rituals, and emotional and consequential aspects (p < 0.01). All types of acute stress reactions, i.e. dissociative symptoms, re-experience, avoidance, anxiety, hyper-arousal and functional disorder, also had a negative significant relationship with religious beliefs, and meaning of life and its dimensions (p < 0.05). 36% of the total variance of acute stress reactions was explained by meaning of life and religious beliefs (p < 0.01). Therefore, couples'' meaning of life and religious beliefs decrease their acute stress reactions after the disclosure of spouse''s infidelity.

This study aims at investigating the prediction of adherence to Islamic hijab based on religious beliefs and the use of cyberspace by female high school students in Mako.

The method of the present study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in nature. The statistical population of this study was female high school students in Mako city in the academic year 2020-2021. Among them, 150 students were selected by cluster random sampling. To collect data, the Islamic Hijab Observance Questionnaire, Glark and Stark Questionnaire of Religious Beliefs and the Social Networking Dependence Questionnaire were used. Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to analyze the data.

The results of correlation coefficients showed that the observance of Islamic hijab has a positive and significant relationship with the total score of religious beliefs and belief, emotional and ritual components and a negative and significant relationship with dependence on social networks (p <0.01). Also, the results of regression coefficient showed that 0.50% of the total variance of observing Islamic hijab is explained by religious beliefs and dependence on social networks.

It can be concluded that there is a direct relationship between the level of religiosity and adherence to genuine Islamic values such as hijab, and on the other hand, the use of cyberspace, if it is without media literacy, can have negative effects such as less commitment to hijab in students.

Birth and child is associated with pressure and difficulty for the mother, but if this child has a physical or mental disability, it will lead to consequences and reactions. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to investigate the structural pattern of resilience, optimism and life expectancy with posttraumatic growth in mothers with autistic children with the mediating role of religious beliefs.

The present research is of the correlation type. The statistical sample included 225 mothers with autistic children who were selected by purposive and available sampling from educational centers and the Autism Spectrum Children Association in 2019. The tools used in this research were Religious Attitudes Questionnaire (Serajzadeh, 1998), resiliency scale (Conner-Davidson,2003), optimism questionnaire (Scheier-Carrer, 1985), life expectancy Scale (Miller, 1988) and post traumatic growth questionnaire (Tedischi & Calhoun, 1996), and Pearson correlation coefficient, path analysis and bootstrap method were used to analyze the data.

The analysis of the findings showed that the structural model has a good fit and all predictor and mediator variables can predict 0.41 of the dependent variable changes. Thus, religious beliefs mediate the relationship between Resilience and hope and post traumatic growth, but do not mediate the relationship between optimism and post traumatic growth.

According to the findings, it can be said that religious beliefs can mediate the relationship between resilience and life expectancy with post-traumatic growth, but in the relationship between optimism and post-traumatic growth, religious beliefs do not play a mediating role.

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship of religious beliefs with professors’ justice and educational commitment through religious orientation. The research method is descriptive and categorized as correlation. The sample comprise all students of Islamic Azad university in Mahallat. The sampling method is volume-proportional class and group of students were randomly selected for this research according to Karjsi-Morgan sample size formula. The data collected from are four questionnaires about religious beliefs, educational justice, educational commitment and religious orientation and were of great validity and reliability. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results show that a the relationship of religious beliefs with justice and educational commitment is significant, and religious orientation mediates the relationship of religious beliefs with justice and educational commitment.

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between religious beliefs and identity crisis with tendency to drug abuse. The study is cross correlation which changes of criterion variable drug abuse tendency) were examined based on the predictor variables )religious beliefs and identity crisis). About 200 participants were selected through sampling method which they were studying in the years of 1393-94 at Tabriz University, Iran. For gathering data, three questionnaires of Khodayarifard (religiosity) Myrhesami (addiction) and Ahmadi (identity crisis) were used. For statistical analysis of data, descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis) were conducted.The results showed that the relationship between religious beliefs and drug abuse tendency was significant and negative. On the other hand, the relationship between the identity crisis and drug abuse tendency showed a significant and positive correlation. Moreover, according to regression analysis of predictive variables, the identity crisis was the only significant variable in predicting the tendency to drug abuse.

The purpose of This Article is Study of the relationship of religious beliefs and Islamic lifestyle with job performance of elementary school teachers in academic year of 1396-95. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all elementary school teachers (100 males, 152 females) in Bandare Torkman. Stratified random sampling was used to select 61 males and 92 females. Three questionnaires of Glock and Stark Religiosity Questionnaire (1965), Kaviyani Islamic Lifestyle Questionnaire (1388), and Paterson Job Performance Questionnaire (1970) were used and multiple regression and Pearson correlation coefficients were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that there is a relationship between religious beliefs and Islamic lifestyle with the teachers' job performance. In general, religious beliefs and Islamic lifestyle explain 79% (coefficient of determination of 79 o%) of the variance, with multicollinearity results of 3/65 and 3.04, for teachers' job performance. In addition, there is a positive and significant relationship between religious beliefs and its dimensions (belief, emotional, consequential, religious and intellectual) with job performance, between Islamic lifestyle with job performance, and finally between religious beliefs and its dimensions with Islamic lifestyle and dimensions (timeliness, security, defense, thinking and science, mental health, family, financial, ethical, beliefs, and social) of the studied teachers. Thus, the individuals with a high level of religious beliefs and Islamic lifestyles have an effective job performance.

This study examines the relationship between spiritual intelligence, philosophical and religious beliefs mentality of high school female students in Tehran using cluster sampling, 200 female high school students in Tehran were selected. Three questionnaires were used to collect information King Spiritual Intelligence (2008), philosophical mindset and questionnaire religious beliefs was used. The data obtained were analyzed using t-test and multivariate regression analysis, Results showed that between spiritual intelligence, philosophical mindset there are significant correlations with religious beliefs. So that 45% of religious beliefs can be explained through Spiritual Intelligence. On the other hand 47% of the variance religious beliefs can be explained by the philosophical mindset. In the end, to provide valuable practical suggestions are provided with educational practitioners.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between practicing religious beliefs and coping and self-efficacy styles among married women in Rasht. The research method was descriptive correlational. all married womenin Rasht formed the statistical population of this study in 2012. Among them, 200 women were selected using convenient sampling method. They responded to Jarvis’s coping styles questionnaire, Nilsson's religious beliefs questionnaire and Shares et al.'s self-efficacy questionnaire. After collecting data, the results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between confrontational coping styles, self-efficacy and the practice of religious beliefs. There was no significant relationship between emotion-focused coping style and practice of religious beliefs. The results of the research show that married women ought to increase their religious practices in order to use confrontational and sedative coping styles when faced with stressful situations and thereby increase their mental health.

This study aimed to examine the career resiliency of teachers of special schools based on coping styles with the mediating role of religious beliefs.
The statistical population of this descriptive-correlational study consisted of all teachers of special schools in Mazandaran Province, Iran. Through cluster sampling, 200 teachers of special schools were selected. In this study, the Special Education Career Resilience Scale (Sotomayor, 2012), the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (Endler & Parker, 1990), and the Centrality of Religiosity Scale-15 (Huber & Huber, 2012) were used.
Results showed that problem-focused coping style and emotion-focused coping style affect teachers’ career resiliency positively and negatively, respectively, and there is a significant positive correlation between religious belief and resiliency. In addition, all dimensions of religiosity have a significant positive correlation with coping style (problem-oriented). Moreover, religious beliefs have a mediating role between coping style and resiliency.
By teaching appropriate coping styles to teachers, it is possible to increase their career resiliency which enhances the quality of teaching, thereby increasing learners’ ability to learn better.

Considering the importance of political participation of student- teachers, the aim of this study was to evaluate factors such as the students’ adherence to religious beliefs and non-academic study on their political participation. All student- teachers in Salman college of Shiraz Farhangian university were the statistical population of the research., the number of samples was decided to be 196 through using the table of krèches and Morgan. Because of the number of student-teachers entrances in years 2012 & 2013, stratified random sampling was used. Questionnaire was used to collect data, and its validity and reliability was analyzed and approved. In analyzing data, Pearson and ANOVA correlation coefficient and descriptive statistics in SPSS were used. Results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between the level of adherence to religious beliefs and political participation of student-teachers; there was also a significant and positive relationship between the level of non-academic study and political participation of student-teachers.

The purpose of the present study is to explore the simple and complex relationship of religious beliefs, psychological hardness and realized social support with post-traumatic growth among the people with MS in Tehran. The sample includes 100 people with MS who were chosen by convenience sampling. Religion questionnaire, psychological hardness questionnaire, realized social support multi-faceted scale and post-traumatic growth questionnaire were used. To analyze the data simple correlation coefficient and multi-variant regression were used. The findings show that post-traumatic growth is predictable through the variables of religious beliefs, psychological hardness and realized social support.

The aim of present study is to investigate the role of identity styles and religious beliefs in explaining wisdom structure. Method of the present study is descriptive and correlational. Participants in this study were 200 adults with mean age of 37 in governmental and private section (100 males and 100 females). The measure of religious beliefs, identity styles inventory and scale of wisdom test were used as research tools. The results showed the identity styles explain 8 percent of wisdom variance. There are significant correlation between informational Identity Styles and wisdom and cognitive dimension, also reflective dimension had a correlation with informational and normative identity styles and religious participation dimension. The findings also showed significant correlations between affective wisdom dimension and all aspects of religious beliefs.