The Relationship between Religious Orientation and Endurance among the Mothers Having Ailing Children

The present paper seeks to study the relationship between religious orientation and endurance among the mothers having ailing children. The statistical population is the mothers of the patients who were in Imam Khomeini hospital during the month of Bahman, 1389 (January –February 2011). In this research correlation method is used and a group consisting of 100 mothers has been selected according to the sampling available. The Freiburg questionnaire of endurance (including 43 items) and Bahrami Ehsan's religious orientation questionnaire (including 64 items) were used in this research. The results of statistical analyses show that there is a significant relationship between religious orientation and endurance. Furthermore, there is a significant positive relationship between, age, level of education, and coping with illness and religious orientation.