The Relationship between the Religious Treatment and the Mournful Effects among the Bereaved Students

The main aim of the present paper is to study the relationship between the religious treatment and negative and positive mournful effects among the bereaved students. Ninety bereaved students from Isfahan who were selected through available sampling completed Hogan's Grief Reaction Checklist and an Iranian religious treatment scale. The results show that there are significant relationships between the negative and positive mournful effects and the different dimensions of religious treatment, and the component of religious acts can explain %18.2 of the variance of negative effects and %63 of variance of positive effects. Furthermore, students with normal bereavement, compared to those with abnormal bereavement have higher mean scores in religious acts, religious evaluation based on good will, strategies of active and passive religious treatment and lower mean scores concerning the negative opinion about God. These results can have proper implications in determining the integrative religious-psychological strategies in counseling and in treating the bereavement.