Samira Soleimani; Ali Mohammad Rezaei; Roya Dadollahi sarab
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There is a relationship between spirituality and emotional intelligence with mental health. Since identifying of factors affecting mental health in particular in students is necessary, therefore, the present study aimed to determine the relationships between Spirituality and emotional intelligence with ...
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There is a relationship between spirituality and emotional intelligence with mental health. Since identifying of factors affecting mental health in particular in students is necessary, therefore, the present study aimed to determine the relationships between Spirituality and emotional intelligence with mental health in students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Through a cross-sectional study using randomized allocation sampling, 358 students in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were recruited in 2015. A standard questionnaire including demographic variables and variables of spirituality, emotional intelligence and mental health was applied. Collected data were analyzed using linear regression in SPSS software. Mean and standard deviation of age was 21.63 ± 1.7 years, respectively that 64.5% were female. There were significant relationships between spirituality and emotional intelligence with students’ mental health so that predicts by increasing the mean score of spirituality and emotional intelligence, the mean score of students’ mental health to be increased. Emotional intelligence showed that has a more predicting role. Eventually, there were no statistically significant relationships between age and gender with students’ mental health. With regard to results, life skills education in advanced levels considering spirituality and in particular promotion of emotional intelligence can have an important role in improvement of students’ mental health.
seiedeh zohre sadat amirarjmandi; Kianoosh Hashemiyan; Moghgan Niknam
Volume 11, Issue 35 , April 2015, , Pages 137-158
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The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of training in decreasing depression and increasing spirituality of marital satisfaction among married women in region 5 in Tehran. This is a kind of quasi- experimental research including experimental group and the control group in which ...
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The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of training in decreasing depression and increasing spirituality of marital satisfaction among married women in region 5 in Tehran. This is a kind of quasi- experimental research including experimental group and the control group in which replacing the subjects were divided into two groups randomly. In this study, 30 subjects were recruited and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in 8 sessions of spiritual training workshop of 90 minutes, and then one week after the last session, the test was administered to both groups. In this study, the Beck Depression Inventory (short form) and Enrich Marital Satisfaction (short form) were used as a measurement tool. Data analysis was used descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used in the analysis of covariance which was performed through SPSS tool. Testing the hypothesis of the difference between the experimental group and the control variables, depression (with a significance level of p< 0/05), marital satisfaction (with a significance level of p< 0/05), shows statistically significant. The spiritual training decreases depression and increases marital satisfaction in married women. Spiritual interventions such as concentration and meditation, prayer, faith, forgiveness, and other items that were discussed in the context of the group were effective in decreasing depression and increasing marital satisfaction.
