Title of article :
The Relationship Between Spiritual Health and Self-Awareness with Positive-thinking in Second-Grade Female High School Students of District One of Tehran City
Author/Authors :
Moravejnia, Masoumeh Islamic Azad University, Tehran , Khalatbari, Javad Islamic Azad University, Tehran
Abstract :
Purpose: Students from any country are considered as intellectual and
spiritual resources of the country and their issues and problems are
important for successful study and providing their physical and mental
health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship
between spiritual health and self-awareness with positive-thinking in
second-grade female high school students of district one of Tehran city.
Methodology: The present study was a descriptive (correlational) one
in terms of method and an applied one in terms of the purpose. The
statistical population of the present study was second-grade female high
school students of district one of Tehran city in the academic year of 2017-
2018. The sample of the study was 100 students who were selected by
multi-stage cluster sampling. Data collection was done by Self-Awareness
Questionnaire by Fenigstein, Scheier, & Buss (1975), Self-Awareness
Questionnaire by Oxford Argyle (2001), and Spiritual Health
Questionnaire by Ploetzin and Ellison (1982). For statistical analysis, the
mean and standard deviation of descriptive statistics and multivariate
regression were used at the level of inferential statistics and the correlation
coefficient was used using SPSS22 software at a significance level of 0.05.
Findings: The results showed that the relationship between spiritual
health and self-awareness with positive-thinking was significant in the
female high school students in Tehran city, so that these two variables had
the ability to predict positive-thinking and were able to explain positivethinking
variable to 14.4 percent (P <0.01). Conclusion: Self-awareness
and its role in spiritual health showed that self-awareness was related to
mental and physical health
Keywords :
Spiritual Health , Self-Awareness , Positive-thinking