Moderating Effects of Personality Traits in Relationship Between Religious Practices and Mental Health of University Stu
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Moderating Effects of Personality Traits in Relationship Between Religious Practices and Mental Health of University Students Sarwat Sultan1 · Frasat Kanwal1 · Irshad Hussain2
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Abstract This study focused on examining the effects of personality traits in moderating relationship between religiosity and mental health of university students. It was conducted on a sample of (N = 372) university students aged between 20 and 26 years equated to gender: 186 male and 186 female students at Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan. The religiosity, mental health and personality traits were measured by using the scale of Religiosity of Islam, Inventory of Mental Health and Big Five Inventory, respectively. The correlation analyses showed the significant relationship of religiosity with behavioral control but negatively associated with anxiety and depression as two dimensions of mental health. The results further demonstrated that openness to experience and agreeableness as traits of students’ personality considerably moderated the relationship of religiosity and mental health. Keywords Mental health · Religiosity · Personality traits · Islamic beliefs · Islamic behavioral practices
Introduction Religion as a code of conduct provides practical guidelines to its believers to live a peaceful and healthy life. They embrace religious beliefs and practices and feel as enlightened, motivated and internally strengthened individuals (Hussain and Ramzan 2018; Setta and Shemie 2015; Hashi 2011) of the society. Traditionally, different researchers and psychologists (Ellis 1965; Jung 1933; Allport 1950; Bergin 1983; Payne et al. (1991)) appeared to be keen on the subject and explored * Irshad Hussain [email protected] 1
Department of Applied Psychology, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Multan, Pakistan
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Department of Educational Training, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan
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Journal of Religion and Health
the influence of religion and religious beliefs and religion-related practices on one’s life. Religion and religious practices ensure a sound environment for mental health even in odd situations (Jung 1933; Allport 1950). However, different irrational concepts and beliefs seem to be associated with different religions and have detrimental effects on psychological well-being of the people (Ellis 1965). An affirmative association between religiosity and psychological well-being of individuals can be seen through different studies (Weber and Pargament 2014; Behere et al. 2013; Hafizi et al. 2014; Moreira-Almeida et al. 2006). An average positive correlation of + 0.09 between mental health and religiosity was affirmed in 1983 (Bergin 1983), but the observation and experiences acknowledged such relationship to be acceptable (Bergin 1991); even so, results of different studies demonstrated positive relationship between the two, i.e., the religious practices and mental health (Payne et al. (1991). The religiosit
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