The Relationship between Dimensions of Religiosity, Gender, and Marital Status and the Rate of Life Satisfaction among the Female and Male Students of the University of Mazandaran

Life satisfaction is of such an importance that it could be considered as the ultimate purpose in everyone’s life. Reports, however, indicate that the rate of life satisfaction is low in Iran. The present article seeks to analyze the relationship between the degree of religiosity and the rate of life satisfaction in a statistical sample of 407 university students. The results show that the majority of students enjoy high degrees of religiosity (54.3%) while the degree is higher among female students. On the other hand, a minority of 47.91% of students enjoy high rates of life satisfaction while the rate is higher, again, among female students. Also, the results show that there is a statistically significant relationship between belief-oriented, ritual and experiential dimensions of religiosity and life satisfaction, although there is no meaningful relationship between consequential dimensions of religiosity and life satisfaction. The regression shows that the variables of experiential religiosity and gender could explain 0.05 of life satisfaction. Considering such damages as brain drain, it is suggested that the students’ religiosity is to be enhanced for improving the sense of life satisfaction among students.