title: The relationship between dimensions of religiosity/spirituality with mental health and hope for future between staff of public hospitals in Shiraz.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Due to the impacts of spirituality and its dimensions on psychological structures in the workplace and their ability to influence organizational performances have received a great attention in recent years. Thus, this study investigated the relationship between dimensions of spirituality with mental health and hope for future.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a correlational study with a statistical population, including public Hospital's personnel of Shiraz done in autumn 1389. To collect the research data, three different types of questionnaires were used: (1) Hope for the future (4 items), (2) mental health (12 items), and (3) components of religiosity/spirituality at (31 items and based on 5 components). Data were analyzed using Pearson's correlation and Hierarchical regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Research findings show that there are significant correlations between existential well-being and hope for the future, motivation, devotion and coping and hope for the future, and mental health and hope for the future. Furthermore, all components of religiosity/spirituality have had significant correlations with mental health. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that in the first step motivation, devotion and coping with a variance of 5%, in the second step motivation, devotion and coping with mental health with a variance of 6.4%, in the third step motivation, devotion and coping with mental health and existential well-being with a variance of 9.1% and in the fourth step, the combining of motivation, devotion and coping and existential well-being with a variance of 8.9% with hope for the future have meaningful multiple relationships.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings indicated that motivation, devotion and coping with existential well-being, respectively, were the most important dimensions of religiosity-spirituality that together with mental health affect hope for future. It is necessary that the dimension of motivation, devotion and coping, existential well-being and personnel mental health should be strengthened to increase the staff's hope for future.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad university, Esfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nadi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Arsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Member of Young researchers club, Arsanjan, Iran.
authors.forename: Nasrin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ghahremani
keywords: Hope for the future; mental health; religion; spirituality; staff
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