Journal of Studies In Islam and Psychology

Iran's Research Institute of Hawzah & University · Faculty of Behavioural Sciences; Department of Psychology

This article reports a descriptive-normative research performed to design a scale and determine its reliability as well as authentication. Patience, on one hand, is a psychological concept, and on the other hand, is one of religious coping strategies which can help individuals overcome daily mental pressures, and omit or diminish their damages. To...

This study aims to compare human based on Roger's viewpoint and Islamic perspective. Since humanology is considered as a foundation of humanities including psychology, studying in the related issues like personality theories and individuals' mental health is of importance and necessity. Carl Rogers is one of phenomenologist psychologists that his h...

This review summarizes the current meta-analysis literature on treatment outcomes of CBT for a wide range of psychiatric disorders. A search of the literature resulted in a total of 16 methodologically rigorous meta-analyses. Our review focuses on effect sizes that contrast outcomes for CBT with outcomes for various control groups for each disorder...

This article aims to compare religious attitude and religious faith strength among girl pupils and students of Isfahan. For doing this, 65 girl pupils and 55 girl students were chosen from Isfahan high schools and Isfahan University, respectively, using random sampling method. Needed information was collected by means of Religious Attitude Measurem...

This research tries to study students' religious attitudes and determine the relationship among cognitive, emotional and behavioral components of their attitudes. To do this, some questions were posed and Religious Orientation Test (Azarbaijani, 2004) was utilized. The test was applied among four student groups which were selected using random samp...

This review paper attempts to answer the question “do Imams’ (PBUH) prayers affect daily life and mental health of individuals who read them faithfully?”. In order to answer this question, Imam Sajjad’s (PBUH) prayers have been selected as sample and thus were analyzed by content. Hence, its various topics have been compared to standards accepted b...

This quasi-experimental research aims to study psychological dimensions of Hajj rituals (Manasek-e-Hajj) and its effectiveness in the general health of hojjaj. Its population is composed of 22500 pilgrims who registered in Tehran Province. Among them, 105 subjects (62 males, 43 females) were selected as sample and were asked to fill GHQ (General He...

The main purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of moral intelligence in the view of Borba (2005) and Lennick and Kiel (2003) with the view of Quran and Imams. Moral development of people is directly related to their behavior. This study performs a conceptual and theoretical analysis of religious texts such as: Quran, Nahjul Balagheh, To...

Personality characteristics are factors that have a great impact on the type of human relations and social interactions. Also, religion is the fact that has always been with mankind and constructs the foundation of his life. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between personality characteristics and acting to religious belie...

The research analyzes the mental picture of God in juvenile and youth felons. The research method is descriptive and the statistical population includes all juvenile and youth felons between the age of 15 and 20, who resided in Isfahan jail in years 1386-87. By simple random sampling, 66 students were picked and studied. The researcher designed a 2...

The research analyzes the mental picture of God in juvenile and youth felons. The research method is descriptive and the statistical population includes all juvenile and youth felons between the age of 15 and 20, who resided in Isfahan jail in years 1386-87. By simple random sampling, 66 students were picked and studied. The researcher designed a 2...

The study of traits psychology and ethics reveal a similarity of their bases about personality. The simplest hypothesis is the derivation of traits theory from ethics. In this article, the basis of traits psychology in ethics is analyzed. In this way, the approach of traits in personality is studied. Then, the most important ethical theories such a...

The purpose of this research is to introduce a therapy model. This model, called monotheist integrated therapy, is a multimodal and comprehensive therapy that is suggested for curing anxiety disorder, personality disorder, drug dependence disorder, and misbehavior disorder. In this model, different psychotherapy techniques in monotheist-spiritual t...

The aim of this research is to study the causes and grounds of domestic violence against women. Thus, a theoretical meta-analysis was performed on several previous Iranian and other research works. The results show that the causes of violence against women are restricted to personal, interpersonal, and social categories. The personal causes can be...

The purpose of this research is analysis of the role of religious orientation, religiosity, and distributive and procedural just world beliefs of students by correlational studies. The statistical population includes the freshman students of the College of Psychology and Education of Azad University, Khorasgan branch, in 1386-1387 academic year. Th...

The purpose of this research is to introduce a therapy model. This model, called monotheist integrated therapy, is a multimodal and comprehensive therapy that is suggested for curing anxiety disorder, personality disorder, drug dependence disorder, and misbehavior disorder. In this model, different psychotherapy techniques in monotheist-spiritual t...

The aim of this research is to study the causes and grounds of domestic violence against women. Thus, a theoretical meta-analysis was performed on several previous Iranian and other research works. The results show that the causes of violence against women are restricted to personal, interpersonal, and social categories. The personal causes can be...

Personality characteristics are factors that have a great impact on the type of human relations and social interactions. Also, religion is the fact that has always been with mankind and constructs the foundation of his life. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between personality characteristics and acting to religious belie...

The purpose of this research is analysis of the role of religious orientation, religiosity, and distributive and procedural just world beliefs of students by correlational studies. The statistical population includes the freshman students of the College of Psychology and Education of Azad University, Khorasgan branch, in 1386-1387 academic year. Th...

The main purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of moral intelligence in the view of Borba (2005) and Lennick and Kiel (2003) with the view of Quran and Imams. Moral development of people is directly related to their behavior. This study performs a conceptual and theoretical analysis of religious texts such as: Quran, Nahjul Balagheh, To...

Self-leadership is a process through which a person can generate and preserve behaviors that lead him to maturity and perfection. This research is a comparative study between a four-stage Islamic self-evaluation and self-leadership behavioral-focused strategies. Self-leadership is one of the issues that have been recently brought about in the field...

The "natural" religion of Islam, as a way of life, has a comprehensive plan for immunizing human behavior against perversion and sex-related problems. This research aims to reach an Islamic model of safe and improved sexual behavior which is immune to sexual perversions, problems and disorders. The research method is descriptive-analytical involvin...

The present research aims to design and build religious adherence test and assess its validity on the basis of the statements of the Holy Quran and Nahjul Balaghah. For this reason, first of all some behavioral statements were chosen and then a questionnaire study consisting of 60 questions was conducted on a sample of 682 undergraduate students fr...

The present research aims to measure the "relationship between the spiritual and emotional intelligence of the students of Isfahan University". The research method has been descriptive-correlative and a sample of 450 individuals was selected by a multi-level random cluster sampling process. The measurement tool, which included trait emotional intel...

Anger is an emotion that has negative and destructive consequences and it has long been the focus of intellectuals' attention. In Islamic narrative texts, effects of out-of-control anger, physiological and behavioral symptoms, and the detrimental effects of anger on family and social relationships have been explained in details. The present researc...

The object of this research is to study the relationship between the different dimensions of religiosity and moral identity in students of Isfahan University. For this purpose, a quasi-experiment design was used and a sample of 78 members (41 males, 37 females) was selected by random sampling whereupon religiosity measure questionnaire (Aquino,2002...

The purpose of this research is to ascertain whether or not implicit association test (IAT) can measure indirect attitudes. Implicit association test (IAT) is a computer based experimental method within social psychology designed to measure indirect attitudes. It has been endeavored in this experiment, which is conducted on an Iranian sample with a...

This study was conducted with the purpose of predicting mental health based on attachment styles, psychological-spiritual transformation and the perception of God among female students. This scientific-religious study is a descriptive-correlational research, and the population consists of all female students aged 18 to 45 years of Islamic Azad Univ...

In the past decades, the attitude toward the family has changed in the fields of marriage, marital relation, and parenting in Iran. The influence of the family and the appropriate performance of its roles, especially the transmission of the values and culture of the society, are affected by the members' attitudes. Considering the importance of the...

This study aimed to investigate the role of psychological flexibility, emotional empathy, and spiritual experiences in the prediction of marital satisfaction of married women. This descriptive study was a correlational research and the population was all married women living in the city of Qom. To determine the sample size, based on Tabachnick and...

Veterans (Janbazan) suffer many physical and psychological injuries in their lives; therefore, it is important to evaluate their resilience against adversity. Based on this, the aim of the present research was to explain the mediating role of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between spiritual well-being and resil...

"Growth" is one of the significant topics of behavioral sciences, which means human transformation and includes many dimensions such as physical, emotional, emotional, moral, social, etc. growth. The aim of the Holy Quran as the main source of religion is also growth. The main question of the present research is an answer to the concept of "transce...

In the issue of efficiency, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting family efficiency. This research aimed to model family efficiency structurally based on life meaning with the mediating role of spirituality in the family and marital boundaries. The population included all couples in the city of Qom in 2023 and 384 of them were selected...

The word agency implies a kind of sense of responsibility toward the path of one's own life. The acceptance of human agency depends on the explanation of the origin of action, which is called "I". This study aims to present a counseling model based on Allameh Mohammad Taghi Jafari's view. In the first part, an attempt has been made by the hermeneut...

This study aims to determine the effect of religious cognitive behavioral education on the guilt-feeling of Esfahan's infertile couples. The research method is semi-experimental and it was conducted on test and control groups with a pre-and post test design. The size of the sample was equal to 10 interfile couples in the test group and 10 infertile...

A faithful individual does not consider life to be futile and aimless; he moves ahead towards his goals with motive. There are numerous instructions concerning hope and despair in the Quran and traditions. This article aims to study, according to the Islamic texts, the effects of hope on man's mental health. The research has been done in a descript...

This study aims to examine some of the social constituents of mental health in Nahjul Balaghah and it seeks to answer the question as to whether, on the basis of the teachings of Nahjul Balaghah, the social causes such as economic labor and activity, social relations, receiving support from others and government have an impact on mental health. For...

This study aims to introduce and examine the religious group therapy method and compare it with the cognitive – behavioral therapy. The central question is: Does group therapy by way of a religious and cognitive-behavioral method lead to an increase in self-esteem and improvement of marital attitudes of prisoners? Tool: Coppersmith Self-Esteem Inve...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric features of the gratitude questionnaire. Having become certain of the validity of translation, 335 respondents were selected by way of accessible sampling. Of these respondents, 240 were university students and 95 religious students (163 women and 172 men). The participants replied to f...

The object of this research is to present a methodology of building an Islamic test and to verify its features and differences with other tests. The question was: Is the method of constructing a religious test (reference criterion) the same as that of the "reference norm"? In order to provide a concrete and clear answer to this question, I have exa...

Introduction and purpose: The effect of religiosity on psychological well-being has been under discussion for many years. Yet only in the second half of the previous century, this subject was put to experimental test. This study aims at studying the relationship between religiosity and one of the aspects of psychological well-being i.e. psychologic...

Zikr (or Dhikr) means remembering God in heart and calling Him on tongue. zikr, as an essential psychological process, can produce relaxation and assurance. Unfortunately it has not yet been investigated psychologically. Regarding the significance of zikr in spiritual growth a questionnaire was prepared and validated in this study. After checking i...

There is a significant relationship between religious activities and man's health and wellbeing. In addition to attitude, faith, and love Islam possesses practical aspects and rituals too. The statistical population of this study includes all university students from Tehran who have traveled to Mecca to perform `umrah in July 2004. The statistical...

The aim of the present paper is to investigate the relationship between religious orientation and personality traits of male and female students of University of Muhaqqiq Ardabili. Instruments used by this study are: the Neo Personality Inventory –Revised (NEO PI-R) and the Religious Orientation Scale. The research design is a descriptive one of th...

In order to investigate the relationship between religious identity, religious attitude, psychological hardiness and mental health among mu`takifs of Rasht mosques, 96 persons (men from Qods mosque and women from Imam Reza mosque) were selected by simple random sampling. Mu`takifs filled up the questionnaires about religious identity, psychological...

The purpose of the present study is to identify the effectiveness rate of religious knowledge, attitude, and behavior on happiness of students (especially the girl students of middle and high schools of district no. 2 in Kerman). The research design is a descriptive one of the causative-comparative type. The instruments for collecting data include:...

The present study is concerned with the effectiveness of cognitive training with an Islamic approach on students' life satisfaction through the following two hypotheses: cognitive training on students' life satisfaction through an Islamic approach at the post test and follow up stages. The instrument of this study was the Satisfaction with Life Sca...

The present study has been done with the aim of investigating the relationship between religious orientation, practical obligation to the Islamic tenets, and students' mental health. The statistical population of this study was the Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch, 340 of them were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. The investiga...

This study aims at investigating the relationship between religious beliefs as an element of spiritual intelligence and sport ethics among the talented athletes of different sport disciplines (water polo, handball, basketball, and karate) of Isfahan Clubs in year 2010. The descriptive correlational method of research was employed in this investigat...

The present paper is a comparative study of psychological concept analysis of perfection. It is viewed from two perspectives: Psychology and the Holy Quran. This study, using the library research method and analysis of religious texts, has been performed in line with illustration and completion of the issues related to the psychology of perfection....

This study reflects the role of religion in reducing the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The present research employed a pretest-posttest control group experimental design to investigate the effectiveness of religion in reducing the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Thus, a total of 30 subjects with obsessive-compulsive di...

The present paper is concerned with the relationship of "affective family environment" and "religious orientation" with "addiction tendency" among students of Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz. 200 subjects (100 male students and 100 female students) were selected using stratified random sampling technique. Three questionnaires were used for data co...

The aims of the present research study are as follows: determining the status of "assessment of mental-spiritual upheaval" in treatment of religious clients, describing its measuring tools, investigating the relationship between mental-spiritual upheaval and mental health. Hence, the criteria for identification of mental-spiritual upheaval were est...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between spirituality and happiness of IsfahanUniversity. In doing so, 330 students (115 male students and 115 female students) were selected using simple random sampling and the form of a correlation research design. They all responded to the items of the Oxford Happiness and Spiritual...

This study aims to compare and contrast the religious orientation of senior students and freshmen. In doing so, a number of senior students of Engineering, Basic Sciences, and Humanities (N=700), and some freshmen of the same colleges (N=3000) were selected through stratified sampling which amounted to 237 and 124 respectively. In this research the...

The purpose of this study was to examine the theory of positive emotions. The main questions were: 1) What is the function of positive emotions? 2) What are the patterns of positive emotions? The author of the present research study first tries to identify and extract the relevant concepts of Islamic texts. He then makes an analysis of their conten...

The present research study is mainly concerned with the spiritual intelligence of department heads of Isfahan University and its relation to demographic variables, utilizing the descriptive correlational method of research. Statistical population was all the department heads of Isfahan University in academic year 2008-2009. Data was collected using...

The aim of this study was to provide a psychological analysis of the "perfect man in the Qur'an" and consequently to answer this question: "How can Quranic content related to the perfect man be presented in a psychological structure?". The research was performed by theoretical and conceptual analysis of concepts related to the "perfect man" using t...

This study aimed to investigate the sources of motivation from Abraham Maslow and Allameh Tabatabaei's view and make a comparison between the two viewpoints to answer this question: What is the source of motivation for human moral behavior? It has been performed by the method of theoretical and rational analysis of religious and psychological texts...

The present study aims at demonstrating the relationship between religiosity and mental health of teachers from city of Roudan using the descriptive - correlational method. A total of 274 teachers were selected, via a stratified cluster sampling method (by gender and education). They responded to the following questionnaires: Religiosity Khodayari...

The present study examines the relationship between "marital satisfaction" with "communication patterns of couples' was performed. A sample consisting of 121 couples (242 students) from University of Tarbiyat Moallem and Islamic Seminary in Isfahan were selected using a multilevel random cluster sampling process. The religious affiliation acts as t...

The present research has made a psychological validation of a self-made Islamic management scale and investigated moderating role of performance variable pertaining to the relationship between the aspects of job analysis and Islamic management. In order to provide an Islamic management questionnaire the first stage was to supply a 400 question bank...

This research attempts to find the Self-Confidence Model (SCM) in the Islamic ethics. The article mainly raises the following questions: What are the components of self-confidence in the Islamic ethics? What model is offered thereof? How are models of psychology and ethics related? To do so, doctrines and concepts of the issue have been dealt with...

The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between students' "spiritual growth" and "mental health" through a descriptive survey research method. The statistical population consists of students of educational sciences and psychology, Islamic Azad University of Qom. 198 students were selected in a stratified random sampling design. T...

This study investigates stress or psychological factors and coping strategies with them among female students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad who read Quran and those who don’t read. The research question states whether there is difference in psychological stress and coping strategies between these two groups? In order to reply it, a sample of fe...

The present study is concerned with evaluation and explanation of the role of "dyadic expectations" and "healthy relations" (faith-based relations) in "marital satisfaction". Two hundred married men and women of Kerman (100 women and 100 men) participated in this research study. They were asked to complete the following questionnaires: "Dyadic Expe...

The present research study aims at analyzing contents of Hedyehaye Asemani (Divine Gifts) and literature textbooks in primary school in regard to Mahdism and its components from two perspectives: lessons and pictures. The components of Mahdism including the knowledge of philosophy of appearance, knowledge of philosophy of absence, knowledge of Imam...

The present research aims to measure the relationship of religious affiliation and gender with students' test anxiety. The research method is a descriptive one of the correlative type. For this purpose, as many as 390 students (200 girls and 190 boys) from the students of Qom high schools were selected through quota sampling. The research tool incl...

As it is appear from the title this research study aims at investigating the effect of religious-based cognitive behavior therapy on marital adjustment and mental health. The research method was experimental with pre-posttest fallow up and control group. The sample consisted of 32 couples with familiar problems. They were randomly divided into two...

This study investigates stress or psychological factors and coping strategies with them among female students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad who read Quran and those who don’t read. The research question states whether there is difference in psychological stress and coping strategies between these two groups? In order to reply it, a sample of fe...

As it is appear from the title this research study aims at investigating the effect of religious-based cognitive behavior therapy on marital adjustment and mental health. The research method was experimental with pre-posttest fallow up and control group. The sample consisted of 32 couples with familiar problems. They were randomly divided into two...

The present research aimed to investigate the relationship between students' "spiritual growth" and "mental health" through a descriptive survey research method. The statistical population consists of students of educational sciences and psychology, Islamic Azad University of Qom. 198 students were selected in a stratified random sampling design. T...

This research attempts to find the Self-Confidence Model (SCM) in the Islamic ethics. The article mainly raises the following questions: What are the components of self-confidence in the Islamic ethics? What model is offered thereof? How are models of psychology and ethics related? To do so, doctrines and concepts of the issue have been dealt with...

The present study tended to investigate the reliability (internal consistency, test-retest and split-half reliability), convergent validity and gender differences in Santa Clara's power of religious faith questionnaire (Plante&Boccaccini 1997) in a population of Iranian students. Participants included 300 students from Tehran University (131female...

The present research aimed at investigating the relationships between "identity styles" and "coping strategies" with" accepting mastership (Velayat)" among students of Tabriz University. 370 participants were randomly chosen according to Krejcie and Morgan chart (1970). They were asked to fill out the "Bunion and Adamsidentity style", "Blingz and M...

The present research aims to measure the relationship of religious affiliation and gender with students' test anxiety. The research method is a descriptive one of the correlative type. For this purpose, as many as 390 students (200 girls and 190 boys) from the students of Qom high schools were selected through quota sampling. The research tool incl...

The present research study aims at analyzing contents of Hedyehaye Asemani (Divine Gifts) and literature textbooks in primary school in regard to Mahdism and its components from two perspectives: lessons and pictures. The components of Mahdism including the knowledge of philosophy of appearance, knowledge of philosophy of absence, knowledge of Imam...

The present study is concerned with evaluation and explanation of the role of "dyadic expectations" and "healthy relations" (faith-based relations) in "marital satisfaction". Two hundred married men and women of Kerman (100 women and 100 men) participated in this research study. They were asked to complete the following questionnaires: "Dyadic Expe...

the research was conducted to investigate the impact of “believing in Day of Judgment” and “believing in just Day of Judgment” on the relationship between “believing in just and unjust world for oneself and others” and “psychological well – being”. The participants were students of psychology among whom 267 were selected and asked to fill in the qu...

The present research tended to investigate the impact of teaching NahjAlbalaghah on different aspects of general health of students in Semnan Univedrsity. The research was an experimental one including pretest, posttest as well as control group. 61 students were randomly chosen and divided into experiment and control groups. The participants were a...

The purpose of the present research was to delve into the relationship between "one's perception of God" with "psychoticism" among students of Tehran and Iran medical sciences universities. In so doing, 237 students were selected applying proportional sampling procedure. God Image Inventory (Lawrence, 1997) and Scale of Psychoticism in Symptom Chec...

Theorically, this research aims to study: 1. Abuhamed Ghazali’s ideas about moral education analitically; 2. Albert Bandura’s ideas on moral education; 3. the extent to which their ideas might correspond and practically, to compare Albert Bandura’s experimental findings with ghazali’s religious viewpoint. The main question is: what are Albert Bandu...

The present research aimed at investigating the meaning of life from the view point of Imam Ali (pbuh). Among all narrations quoted from Imam Ali, NahjAlbalaghah was chosen as the source containing the highest number of narrations. Having investigating NahjAlbalaghah, the researchers selected and analyzed the intended Hadiths through religious reas...

This study was aimed at analyzing the content of "religion and life" books in high schools to determine the extent of students' involvement with the content of the book. To do this, having determined the spirituality variables (needs of existence, spiritual safety seeking, friendship with God, munificence and spiritual self - actualization) as crit...

This study aimed at investigating the relation between "parents' level of religiosity" and "their violent behavior towards their children" which was conducted in Shiraz applying measurement approach. To conduct this research, 384 members were chosen among high school students and their parents applying Kokran formula cluster sampling. The mediums o...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of "teaching spirituality" on the "couples' marital adjustment" among the ones referring to consulting centers in Isfahan. The research was conducted applying quasi-experimental method. To accomplish this goal, 30 couples referring to consulting centers were voluntarily selected and wer...

The present study aimed at investigating the impact of behavioral – cognitive bereavement care in Islamic view on general health of the bereaved families. This was a quasi – experimental research which was conducted using control group plus pre – test, post – test and the follow ups. The population included 16 bereaved families that were purposeful...

The purpose of the study was to delve into the theoretical principle of "managing role of man" in Islamic view point. The research questions were as follows: 1. Who bears the managing responsibility in the family? 2. What are man and woman's stances in accordance with that role? The researcher adopted a descriptive – analytical procedure in this st...

The purpose of the study was to compile the principles and structure of Islamic intervention to remove couples' disputes. The first question was to what extent and based on what principle does Islam recommend such intervention? Second question was what is the structure of such intervention like? The procedure of the research (a scientific- religiou...

The purpose of the study was to delve into the role of self – knowledge procedures and religious orientation in "character strength". 315 students (227 male and 88 female) were asked to fill in the following questionnaires: Integrative Self-Knowledge Scale (Qorbani et al 2008), The Measure of Mindfulness (Brown and Ryan, 2003), The Revised Measure...

From long years ago to the present, learning has been one of the most important issues and scientists and philosophers have done some remarkable and extensive researches on that. Today, learning is an interdisciplinary subject paid attention by psychologists and education scientists. Suhrawardi, the founder of philosophy of illumination, is a perso...

This study aims to investigate the relationship of psycho-spiritual development level and loneliness with existential anxiety among the students. So with the help of multistage sampling, 341 girl students studying for bachelor's degree in Qom University were selected. All the selected students were tested with three tests of psycho-spiritual develo...

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the structure of patriarchal authority in the individual's family of origin and the current efficiency of family. The research methodology is quantitative-correlational. The population consists of all female school teachers in the city of Nourabad in Lorestan province that 205 teachers were se...

The aim of this study is to investigate the change objectives from Nahjul Balagheh's view in comparison with the change objectives from psychology's view. Thus, the classification system of content analysis of 22 classes as the tool of this study was created by combining 16 classes of change objectives from Nahjul Balagheh with 6 classes of change...

The objective of present study is to discover the ways and quality of the parents' influence on the children's religiosity from the view of psychology of religion. In this study, some different researches conducted by psychologists of religion on this subject were considered and the various ways of parents' influence on the children's religiosity w...

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship of belief in religion, self-esteem, and academic achievement among the students studying in the faculty of human sciences, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch. The research methodology is descriptive-correlational. 246 students were selected with the help of stratified sampling. The resear...

Identifying and presenting a comprehensive Koranic approach to motivation is the purpose of this research. The main question of the study is: what are the principles and factors of motivation and how are the human's motivations and behaviors formed from the viewpoint of Koran? For replying that question, the whole Koran was studied verse by verse w...

The research objectives were to investigate the concept of personality attribute, obtain the instances of personality attributes in the Islamic sources, and classify them based on the Islamic sources. The content analysis of Islamic texts was applied for analyzing the data. The research results showed that: a) the personality attributes have been i...

Lexical and statistical researches have shown that a six factor model is able to explain the personality structure well. Those six factors are honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship of the HEXACO model of personality wit...

This Study aimed to present the God's control mechanisms on the individuals' behavior and their effects on adjusting the social behavior from viewpoint of the Koran. The main question was that what mechanisms used by God to control the individuals' behavior and what their effects on adjusting the social behavior are from viewpoint of the Koran. In...