RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION AND STUDENTS’ ADDICTIVE TALENT IN HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, 2018

Students are very important and sensitive and founders of the society. Youth is one of the most important stages of human evolution in which early tendencies to drugs develop. Students' tendency to addiction has a lasting impact on their personality and has implications for society. The level of adherence to religion and beliefs is one of the factors influencing adolescent talent. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between religious orientation and students' addiction in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.

This is an analytical-Grouping study. The statistical population consisted of all eligible students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in 2018. The sample size consisted of 170 students and a proportional stratified sampling method. The data collection tool was a demographic questionnaire and a religious orientation questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 21 and descriptive and analytical statistics.

34.1% of the participants were male and 65.9% were female. 93.5% were Shies and 6.5% were Sunni. The mean and standard deviation of the internal religious orientation was 24.58 ± 4.83 and the mean external religious orientation was 28.95 ± 5.61. The mean and standard deviation of student addiction tendency was 43.66 ± 22.04. There is a positive and significant correlation between external religious orientation and addiction tendency (p <0.01), which means that increasing the score of external religious orientation significantly increases the addiction scores. But, by increasing the score of internal religious orientation, the score of addiction tendency decreased significantly (p <0.01). The correlation between addiction tendency and total score of religious orientation was negative. In other words, by increasing the religious orientation score, the score of addiction tendency has decreased, but this decrease is not significant (p >0.05).

This study showed that there is a relationship between religious orientation and students’ addiction tendency. Therefore, promotion of religious beliefs improves students' health status and plays a preventive role in the prevention of disorders in the lives of individuals and especially students.