The Effectiveness of Remembrance of God on Self-Control according to Islamic Sources

The aim of the present research is to study effectiveness of remembrance of God on self-control on the basis of Islamic sources. It is a semi-experimental study with pretest- posttest and control group. Its statistics population includes male and female students from Qom Seminary for the academic year of 1391- 1392 (2012-2013). The sample includes 50 seminary students (30 male and 30 female) who were divided into experimental group and control group as available sample. Rafiihonar's questionnaire about self-control was used to measure the variables. An independent variable which was a researcher-made invocation package was presented to experimental group for three weeks. The SPSS software, t-test, and covariance analysis were used to analyze the data. The research finding is that remembrance of God raises the level of individual's self-control.Key words: remembrance of God, self-control, Islamic sourcesAbstractsThe Effectiveness of Islamic Ontology Teachings on Increasing the Level of Marital Satisfaction among Married Women Yasir Rezapoor Mirsaleh*, Masoomeh Ismaili**, Kiyoomars Farahbakhsh***Abstract The present research which is a semi-experimental study having pretest, posttest, control group, and follow-up seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of Islamic ontology teachings on increasing the level of marital satisfaction among married women. To this end, 24 individuals were randomly chosen from clients of Bab al-Hawaj Counseling Center in Meybud City. They were divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group was provided with ten 90-minute training sessions on Islamic ontology teachings for five weeks but the control group received no training. Both groups completed the short form of Enrich Marital Satisfaction Scale at three different periods: before the experiment, immediately after the experiment and a month after the experiment. Having analyzed the data, the research finding confirms that Islamic ontology teachings have significant effect on increasing the level of marital satisfaction of participants in experimental group. This increase was also observed in the follow-up stage. We conclude that providing spouses with religious teachings based on Islamic ontology is a proper way of increasing their marital satisfaction.