Family Functioning based on Religious Orientation with the Mediation of Forgiveness in Working Men and Women in Hamedan

This descriptive and correlational research examines family functioning based on religious orientation while mediating forgiveness in working men and women in Hamedan. The current research was descriptive-correlation based on structural equation modeling. In 2021-2022, the research population comprised all married men and women working in government organizations in Hamedan. The sample size was determined using Tabaching et al.'s (2007) technique, which resulted in a sample size of 335 men and women collected by non-random convenience sampling (online method). Data were collected using the Family Assessment Device (FAD), Epstein, Baldwin, and Bishop (1983), the Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) of Azarbaijani (2003), and the Interpersonal Forgiveness Scale (IFS) of Pollard et al. (1998). The structural equation analysis method was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the direct effect of the components of religious orientation (b = -0.514) and forgiveness (b=-0.170) on family performance is significant, and religious orientation with the mediation of forgiveness on family performance is also significant at the 0.001 level. which indicates the fit of the model. As a result, orientation according to the role of forgiveness can explain the performance of the family.