Relationship of personality characteristics and religious orientation with discipline desired behaviors of high school boy students

This research aimed to investigate the relationship of personality characteristics and religious orientation with discipline desired behaviors of high school boy students. This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlation. The statistical population of research included all high school boy students of Varamin city in 2016-17 academic years. From them 360 person were selected by multistep cluster sampling method and all of them completed the questionnaires of personality characteristics (Costa and McCrae, 1995), religious orientation (Allport and Ross, 1967) and discipline desired behaviors (Yoselyani and et al, 2012). Data was analyzed with Pearson correlation and multivariate regression with stepwise model methods. The findings of correlation showed neuroticism and external religious orientation had a negative and significant relationship with discipline desired behaviors and agreeableness, conscientiousness and internal religious orientation had a positive and significant relationship with discipline desired behaviors. Also the finding of regression showed the variables of conscientiousness, neuroticism and internal religious orientation can predict 38/4 percent of variance of discipline desired behaviors of high school boy students (P<0/05). Therefore suggest that counselors and psychologists to improve the discipline desired behaviors of high school boy students increase the conscientiousness and internal religious orientation of them and decrease the neuroticism of them.