Predicting the life expectancy in nurse based on happiness, acting to religious beliefs and psychological hardiness

Due to the stress caused by the hard work of nurses, improving their psychological characteristics, such as life expectancy, seems essential.
Aim: the aim of this research was predicting the life expectancy in nurses based on happiness, acting to religious beliefs and psychological hardiness.
Material & This study was a cross-sectional from type of correlational. The population were nurses in Govermentalal hospital of Ahvaz in 2017 year that from them 220 person were selected by cluster sampling method. All participants completed the questionnaires of life expectancy (Snyder & et al, 1991), Oxford happiness (Argyle & Lu, 1990), acting to religious beliefs (Golzari, 2000) and psychological hardiness (Kobasa, 1979). Data was analyzed with using SPSS-19 and by Pearson correlation and multiple regression with enter model methods.
The results showed there was a positive and significant relationship between happiness (r=0.483), acting to religious beliefs (r=0.345) and psychological hardiness (r=0.291) with life expectancy of nurses. Also the mentioned variables Significantly were able to predict 41.1 percent of variance of life expectancy of nurses that the share of happiness was higher than other variables (p≤0.01).
Regarded to findings planners, counselors and therapists must consider the effect and consequences of happiness, acting to religious beliefs and psychological hardiness and design and implementation appropriate programs to improve the life expectancy of nurses.