Investigating the Relationship between Faith and Spiritual Health on Controlling Stress in Female Students in District 4 of Tehran

One of the problems of the present age is stress among human beings, which will cause many problems in human life, to the extent that psychological stress has been called the disease of the new civilization. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between faith and spiritual health with stress control in female students.

This was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population of the study included all female high school students in Tehran in 2018. Using cluster random sampling method, 250 people were selected and completed the religious faith questionnaire [1], the spiritual health questionnaire [2] and the perceived stress questionnaire [3]. In order to predict the contribution of stress management data using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were analyzed simultaneously using SPSS version 26.

The average age of female students participating in the study was 15.67 to 18.76 years. The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between spiritual health and its dimensions including existential health and religious health with perceived stress in female students (P <0.05). There was a negative and significant relationship between faith and perceived stress (P <0.05). Also, simultaneous regression analysis showed that the predictor variables together were able to explain 39% of the variance of the stress inhibition score.

According to the results, it is recommended that schools and institutions that deal with adolescents in the form of educational-recreational programs to strengthen religious beliefs and spirituality.