Designing interactive psycho-social program  for improvement of religious beliefs and behaviors of university students  based on cognitive-behavioral approach

doi:10.22059/japr.2013.52349

Designing interactive psycho-social program for improvement of religious beliefs and behaviors of university students based on cognitive-behavioral approach

Document Type : Research Paper

10.22059/japr.2013.52349

Abstract

The aim of developing a cognitive-behavioral model of religiosity is to construct and standardize of the measurement scale of religiosity, and further, to guide the planning for improvement of religiosity factors.The objective of this article is to explain psycho-social factors associated with the improvement of religious beliefs and behaviors of university students. Start of university life and having more freedom and control over their own time, the norms of friends and peer groups presence at sacred places along with friends, wrong beliefs, ambiguity and doubtfulness, and university religious culture and norms on the one hand, and secured attachment to God on the other hand, had been examined and discussed as effective factors. Lastly, on the basis of this model a package for improvement of students’ religious beliefs and behaviors has been developed, which covers seven fundamental dimensions of a safe life skills, secured attachement, spiritual quality and moral behavior, responsing questions, spiritual intelligence, using films and sight seeing and correcting wrong religious beliefs.

Keywords

cognitive-behavioral model

Religiosity

religious improvements

religiosity factors