A Study of the Role of Attachment to God in Predicting the Basiji Student's Quality of Life by Controlling the Mediating Role of Spiritual Attitude

Quality of life is a multidimensional concept composed of personal, social, physical and mental traits. Hence, this study has been conducted to investigate the role of attachment to God in predicting the quality of life of students in a military organization by controlling the mediating role of spiritual attitude.
This study is based the correlational descriptive method. Using the convenience sampling method, 300 basiji students were selected from the universities in Tehran in the academic year 20152016. The required data were collected using the quality of life, attachment to God and spiritual attitude questionnaires. The obtained data were analyzed by the Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis.
The results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between quality of life and attachment to God (r₌ 0.56, P˂0.01) and quality of life and spiritual attitude (r₌ 0.41, P˂0.01). In addition, considering the results of the hierarchical regression, it may be concluded that spiritual attitude plays a partial (not full) mediating role in the relationship between quality of life and attachment to God.
The findings suggest that spiritual attitude could play a mediating role between the attachment to God and the quality of life variables. Therefore, the results of this study can be effective in improving the quality of life of university students.