The Relationship between the Status Change of Interpersonal Identity and Religious Identity in Students

The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between interpersonal identity and religious identity in students; thus, 343 undergraduate students (191 girls and 151 boys) were selected among those studying in departments of humanities and technical-engineering in University of Tehran by multi-stage sampling. The research tools were the Bennion's & Adams's (1986) Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status (EOM-EIS-2) and the Rahiminezhad's & Ahmadi's (1995) questionnaire of religious identity. The research findings showed: a) there is a negative correlation between bewilderment and accepting religious identity; b) there is a positive correlation between follow-up and accepting religious identity; c) there is not a relationship between being crisis-hit and accepting and/or rejecting religious identity; d) there is not a significant relationship between having religious identity and accepting religious identity; e) the direction of correlations between variables are similar in both sexes as well as the significance of variables