The Relation Between Religious Tendencies and Alienation, Depression, and Death Anxiety Among Students (Tehran Payame Noor University)

The present study aims to analyze. The relationship between religious tendencies and alienation, depression, and death anxiety among Tehran Payame Noor University students.

Number of four hundred university students are selected stratified random sampling and alport and Russ religious criteria's are executed.

The results of the study shows a negative and meaningful relationship between inner religious attitudes of girls and isolation, disability and alienation. A positive and meaningful relationship between external religious attitudes and disability feeling and alienation. The results of the study also show a negative and meaningful relationship between inner religious attitudes of boys and isolation, disability and alienation feeling. A positive and meaningful relationship between external religious attitudes and disability feeling and alienation. The results on the other hand declare that inner and outer religious attitudes are two powerful variables in predicting alienation, particularly among boys. There is also a negative and meaningful relationship between inner religious attitudes and depression and death anxiety and a positive and meaningful relation between external religious attitudes and depression and death anxiety.

The present paper presents a predictive role for religious attitudes on death anxiety and alienation among students and confirms the effect of inner religious attitudes in reducing death anxiety, depression and alienation.