Relationship of Parents’ Religious Orientation and Responsibility to High School Students’ Resiliency

This study aimed to determine the relationship of parents’ religious orientation and responsibility to high school students’ resiliency. The study was descriptive correlational. The population consisted of all male students in third grade and pre-university secondary schools in the academic year 95-96 enrolled in Khoramdeh city schools from among whom 258 students were selected random cluster method. Alport’s religious orientation question -naire, Nemati accountability and Connor and Davidson Scale questionnair -es were used as tools for research data gathering about each of the students; after collecting data, 247 students’ and their parents’ questionnaires were correlated using Pearson correlation and regression analysis. Findings showed that the religious orientation and resilience (P<0/01) as well as accountability and resiliency (P<0/01) had significant positive relationship. The findings showed that both variables religious orientation and respon -sibility cannot predict the students’ resilience.