The Mediating Role of Religious Coping Styles in the Relationship between Religious Attitudes and Self-Concept with Addiction Tendency in Guilan University Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of religious coping styles in the relationship between religious attitudes and self-concept with addiction tendency in the students of Guilan University.

The study was a correlational design. A total of 530 students of Guilan University were selected by cluster sampling method and answered to the questionnaires of religious attitudes, coping styles, self-concept, and addiction tendency.

The results showed that the proposed structural model had a good fit and all predictor and mediator variables including positive and negative religious coping predicted 42% of the variance of addiction tendency in students, which was moderate. Positive and negative religious coping mediated the relationship between religious attitude and self-concept with addiction tendency.

Positive religious coping leads to decreased tendency to addiction by intensifying religious attitude and neutralizing the destructive role of high self-concept.