Moderating Role of Belief in the Life after Death in the Relationship of Islamic Spiritual Capital with Stress

Current research was administered with the aim of studying the moderating role of belief in life-after-death on the relationship between spiritual capital and job stress. Research method was correlation one and the statistical population comprised employees of a tile factory in Esfahan city, among them two hundred and forty persons were selected by accessible sampling. Research instruments were the spiritual capital questionnaire (ISCQ), belief in life-after-death questionnaire (BLADQ) and job stress questionnaire (JSQ). Date was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and hierarchical regression analysis. Results indicated that, there is a negative and significant relationship between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress, but there is not significant relationship between belief in life-after-death and Islamic spiritual capital. Also the results of hierarchical regression analysis revealed that belief in life-after-death moderates the relationship of Islamic spiritual capital and job stress. In the other word, when belief in life-after-death is in high level, there is a negative and significant relationship between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress. But when belief in life-after-death is in low level, there is no significant relationship between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress. The results of this study indicate that the belief in life-after-death is an important factor in the link between Islamic spiritual capital and job stress.