Spiritual beliefs can help people find meaning of life, and can also influence their feelings, behaviors and mental health. The present research studied the relationship between basic religious beliefs (Human, Existence and God) and five personality factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness. Taken from the Iranian Journal of Psychiatry; 2012 pages 82 – 86.

          In this view, we can noticed and perceived that religion and personality has, in one way or another reciprocate with each other even in some simple ways or reasons. Even if, most claimed that the personality of an individual cannot be associated with the religion he had.

          In the same study, they found that the presence of meaning was positively associated with life satisfaction, happiness, and positive affect and negatively associated with depression

However, the search for meaning was positively associated with well-being, greater life satisfaction, more happiness, and less depression among those who already had substantial meaning in their life. A growing body of literature suggests that people often turn to religion when coping with stressful events, yetto understand individual differences in people’s psychological resilience to life stressors, both personality traits and spirituality/religiousness have both factors and important predictors in the face of adversity.

          We can simply say, following this study that the personality of a religious person aremore calm, at – ease, relaxed, secure and comfortable, while those not much into religion are those worried, nervous, high-strung, insecure.

          And at the end, one can conclude that religious people have more of these positive traits and are more responsible and have greater achievements in their life than others and definitely will support the idea that religious beliefs have a positive relationship with good characteristics that help people resolve the challenges of their lives and identity crisis.

 Reference:

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1Ali Reza Rajaei, PhD,2 and Ahmad Sarvarazemy, MA2; Iranian Journel of Psychiatry; 2012

 

By: EMELYN L. SIASAT | TEACHER || | SAMAL NHS – MAIN | SAMAL, BATAAN