Prediction of Mental Health Based on the Quality of Islamic Life and the Afterlife of Literate Students in Kerman Province

Mental health as an important structure in health has been investigated from different angles. Investigating related and effective factors on this structure has always been of interest to researchers. The purpose of this research was to predict mental health based on the quality of Islamic life and the afterlife of literate students in Kerman province.

The method of this research was a descriptive correlation type. The statistical population of this research included all illiterate, low-literate, and literate men and women of the literacy movement between the ages of 14 and 49 in Kerman province, and 370 people from the population of the literacy movement were selected as a statistical sample by stratified random sampling. In order to collect the data needed for the research, the quality of life questionnaire of Islamic Nejad Mohammad Namghi, Goldberg's mental health and Ebrahimi and Bahrami Ehsan's futurism questionnaire were used. To analyze the data, Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression were used using SPSS version 22 software at a significance level of 0.05.

The results showed that the quality of Islamic life and the outlook on the hereafter were able to predict the mental health of literate students. Islamic quality of life explained 0.234 and akhratism 0.385 of the variance of mental health (P<0.01).

According to the obtained results, it is possible to predict the average score of mental health of literate students of Kerman province.