The Relationship of Islamic Lifestyle with Self-control and Personality Characteristics among the Students

The purpose of the current paper is to clarify the relationship between Islamic lifestyle and self-control and personal traits. This descriptive research is a correlation. Self-control questionnaire, NEO five-factor personality questionnaire and Islamic lifestyle questionnaire are used in this paper. 383 students from Shahab Danesh Educational institution and seminary students of Qom city were the population. The research data were analyzed by Pierson correlation coefficient and Variance analysis. The findings show that there is a significant difference between Islamic lifestyle and self-control and personal traits- except extroversion subtest-. Also there is a significant difference between seminary students and university students. Accordingly, as the marks in Islamic lifestyle increases the self-control and personality traits` marks (except extroversion) increases.