فصلنامه فرهنگ در دانشگاه اسلامی
سال ششم شماره 2 (پیاپی 19، تابستان 1395)

One of the most important concerns of world, s countries is ensuring of health and individuals mental well-being. The objective of this study is to investigate the role of etikaf (seclusion in a mosque for the porpose of the ritual worship) on the psychological well-being of the students participating in the ceremony of etikaf.
For the study, the pretest-posttest with control group design was used. The statistical population consisted of all of the students of universities in Tehran that of which two universities were selected as an available sample. And then between the students participating in the ceremony 140 students (70 girls and 70 boys) were selected randomly and using the Psychological well-being scale by Rif (1980), at one time before and again after the ceremony with the control group were tested.
The results showed that: 1) the psychological well-being of the students was more after the ceremony comparing with the before of ceremony. 2) The Psychological well-being of the students was more compared with the ordinary students.
The evaluation and recognition of the components of the psychological well-being and i

The present research aims at investigating the relationship between religiosity and hope to the future among students of Yazd University.
The used method in this study was descriptive of correlation kind. The statisticall population of the research included Yazd University students in the academic year 93-94, who 374 people of them were selected and studied through stratified random sampling method. Hope to the future Snyder’s test and religiosity test made of researcher on the basis of Gluck and Stark pattern were used as a research tool.
The results showed a positive and significant relationship between religiosity students and their hope to the future. Also, there was a significant positive relationship between the belief, emotional, and intellectual dimensions with hope to the future, but there wasn’t a significant relationship between the ritual dimensions with hope to the future.
Religiosity plays an important role in increasing the hope to the future among students.

This study aimes to investigate the relationship between the amount and type of Internet use by high school and university student's attitudes towards Effects include the use of the Internet on social relations (real friendship, family relationships, and virtual relationships with the opposite sex) and religious behavior.
This study was correlational and the sample consisted of 500 high school and university students in Birjand city that had experience of using the Internet who were selected through convenience sampling. Data were collected through a self-made attitude of the effects of the Internet. Data were analyzed through multivariational regression.
The results of the reseach indicated that the amount and type of the Internet use as predictor variables, can predict social communication variables (friendship, communication within the family, relationships & sex opposed to virtual), religious beliefs and behaviors as criterion variables.
The authors of the present article conclude depending on the facilities of the internet that participants use, the result is different or the same in both groups.

Depression, anxiety and stress can be a precursor to substance and alcohol abuse and even suicide. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of distinguished psychological resilience and coping styles emotional -oriented coping and problem-Focused Coping Styles in predicting student's Psychological Distress Profile And comparison on the basis of gender.
The method of the study was correlational and causal comparative. The entire population of the study consisted of non-native students in Oromieh University in the academic year 2015-2016. Out of this population, 200 students were randomly selected who were staying at Oromieh University dormitories. Of these students 50% (n=100) were female, and the other half were male. In order to collect data, the adolescents responded to Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) Questionnaire, the Resiliency Scale and Endler and Parker’s Coping Questionnaire was used. Information obtained was analyzed by using multivariate analysis of variance and multiple regression analysis.
The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between resiliency and Psychological Distress Profile. There was significant positive correlation between emotional and avoidant coping styles,. There also existed a significant relationship between Psychological Distress Profile and emotion based and avoidant coping styles and variables of coping style (emotion-based), resiliency, and gender well predicted Psychological Distress Profile (R2=%33). A analysis of multivariate data indicated, that the elements of Psychological Distress Profile (nostalgia for the family, the desire to return to family and consistency) different statistically (P Base upon this result can be Conclude that with improving the level of coping styles and resiliency of students, depression, anxiety and stress are reduced.

The centre-piece of the following article is studing the signification delays in female students’ marriage.
This study used qualitative methods and group discussion sessions, which was done with 20 female students at ages of 27 to 38 years old with different levels and fields of education including liberal arts, engineering, science and medicine, as well as arts.
According to participants, taking part in-group discussion; signification delays in marriage consists of two conceptual themes first having an opportunity and second losing the opportunity. Participants also expressed some causes of delays in marriage such as marriage-bound, marriage risks, problems in family, anomie in marriage, different ideas and modern preferences marriage, considering cost - benefit of marriage, mental celibacy, social immorality and rethinking gender identities.
The authors of the present research conclude that in facing this phenomenon the basic strategy is to alert students, families and educational institutions about the causes and consequences of conflict in the way that students are educated and married

The aim of this study was out to investigate the students` experiences of religious threatening aspects of cell phone social networks in Islamic Azad University of Esfahan (Khorasgan-2015).
The research method was qualitative phenomenology. For this purpose, 20 undergraduate, master and doctorate students of Islamic Azad University were selected based on purposive sampling heterogeneous, and the data were analyzed by applying the 7-step Colaizzi method.These statements related Students` experiences of religious threatening aspects of cell phone virtual social network are discussed, with four main concepts including; "weakening the religious identity", "weakening the family and morale values", "weakening the family relationship" and "promotion of the anti-social relationships".
The results of the research indicate a negative influence of cellphone, as far as religious aspect is concerned, on thefamily of students and also int shows religious inclination.
The authors of the article conclude that recognizing the endangerments posed while lessening the social impairments, could provide incomparable exploitation of the cutting-edge technology, and provide the country’s policymakers a comprehensive cultural macro and micro policy roadmap

Spirituality is an inner need of human included of the highest growthin areas of cognitive, moral, emotional and attempt to answer the whys of life. Academic Cheating is an unrealistic showing of individual knowledge and, unfortunately, in most educational organizations and universities worldwide as the leading obstacle is evident in teaching and assessment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of spiritual intelligence on Cheating and role of Neutralization as moderator variable.
The method of the present study is Correlation. In this study and a sample of 460 graduate students from the University of Mazandaran were selected by random sampling. Then the participants were asked to complete the standardized questionnaires about spiritual intelligence, cheating, and neutralization.
Spiritual intelligence had negative effect on the cheating. The results showed that this relationship was moderated by Neutralization.
The research findings recommended to policy makers and Managers in the higher education sector that Understanding the causal of cheatingare is not limited only to students but this issue needs a change in the attitudes of students (Promotion of spiritual intelligence) and reforming the education and assessment system , to reduce student's neutralization attitude about cheating