The Relationship between Religious Orientation and Self-control

The present study aims at an investigation of the relationship between Islamic-religiousorientation with its factors and self-control among men and women as well as the relationship between these factors and the economic and social level. To conduct the study, 120 students were selected randomly and answered two questionnaires of Islamic- religious orientation and self-control. Data analysis using Pearson's Coefficient Test, Independent T-test and One-way Analysis of Variance showed a meaningful relationship between the factors of religious orientation and morality on the one hand, and self-control on the other. In the male group (unlike females) there was a meaningful relationship between factors of beliefs-rites and self-control. On the other hand, there was a meaningful difference between the mean of religious orientation and the factor of morality in two groups of high and low self-control; there was no meaningful difference, however, as to the factor of beliefs- rites. There was no meaningful difference between economical levels of families as to the subject's religious orientations. There was, however, a meaningful difference between these levels as to the mean of self-control. Therefore, the higher the religious score of the subjects was, the higher their score on self-control was. The more their commitment to morality was, the higher their ability in self-control was; and the higher the men's commitment to Islamic beliefs-rites was, the higher their self-control was. On the other hand, those with higher self-control, in contrast to those with a lower self-control, showed a higher level of religious orientation, and there was no change in the individual's level of piety with a change in their economic level.