Causal relationship of religiosity and spirituality with psychological adjustment with mediating attachment to god in students of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences

The aim of this study was to test a model consisting of Causal relationship between religiosity and spirituality with psychological adjustment with mediating role of attachment to god. 144 students of Jundishapur University (82 female and 62 male) were selected by simple random sampling. The instruments used in this study were The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (2002), The Age Universal I-E Scale-12 (1990), The Short Depression-Happiness Scale (2004), Attachment to God Scale (2003), Attachment to God Inventory (2004) and Satisfaction With Life Scale (1985). The fitness of the proposed model was examined through structural equation modeling. The indirect effects were tested by using bootstrap procedure. The findings indicated that the relationship of religiosity and spirituality with psychological adjustment was known by means of the intermediary variable of attachment to god. The proposed model enjoys good features and psychological adjustment was predicted and explained by religiosity, spirituality and attachment to god (GFI=0.93) and (RSMEA=0.02).