Correlation of Religious Commitment with Hardiness and Mental Health in Veterans' Spouses

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Copyright© 2019, ASP Ins. This open-access article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) under the Attribution-NonCommercial terms. [1] An evaluation of quality of life in amputee veterans ... [2] Public ... [3] Evaluation of psychiatric problems among war-related bilateral upper limb ... [4] Quality of life of Croatian veterans’ wives and veterans with posttraumatic stress ... [5] Military-related PTSD and intimate relationships: From description to theory-driven research and ... [6] Distress in spouses of combat veterans with PTSD: The importance of interpersonally ... [7] Life experiences of veterans of ... [8] Outcomes of religious and spiritual adaptations to ... [9] Psychiatric ... [10] Teaching cognitive learning strategies and vocabulary ... [11] Using spiritual intelligence in the field of religious education ... [12] Religious beliefs and mental health: An empirical ... [13] Hardiness ... [14] Effectiveness of hardiness, exercise and social support ... [15] Patient-reported outcomes in borderline personality ... [16] The effectiveness of hardiness training (kobasa mody model) on students’test anxiety and ... [17] Predictors of physical and mental health in hospital nurses within the ... [18] The role of forgiveness and psychological hardiness in prediction of hope. Knowl ... [19] Relationship between spiritual intelligence and spiritual well-being with quality ... [20] Mental ... [21] Surveying the association between occupational stress and mental ... [22] Measuring the effectiveness of resilience training on ... [23] The impact of life skills training on marital satisfaction, marital dissatisfaction and mental ... [24] The role of mediator of perceived stress in the relationship between hardiness and quality of life ... [25] The Effectiveness of teaching spirituality in a group method on resilience of veterans wives ... [26] Personality, well-being and health correlates of trait emotional ... [27] Workgroup emotional intelligence: Scale development and relationship to team process ... [28] Current directions in emotional intelligence ... [29] Mindfulness-based adventure camp for ... [30] Religion and marital quality among low-income ... [31] Exploring the relationship of emotional intelligence with physical ... [32] The relationship between mental health, spiritual intelligence with resiliency in ... [33] Research findings, limitations, and orientations in the field of ... [34] Alexithymia, emotional disclosure, and health: A program of ... [35] The implications of stigma and anonymity for self-disclosure in health ... Aims As a psychological stressor, war imposes a wide range of consequences in a variety of personal and social contexts. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation of religious commitment with hardness and mental health in veterans’ spouses. Instruments & Methods This descriptive-correlational study was conducted in 2017 among all veterans’ spouses with injury percentage of 25-49% in Karaj. Based on Morgan’s table, 250 people were selected as sample, using simple random sampling method. For data collection, Worthington’s Religious Commitment Inventory, Kobasa’s Hardiness Questionnaire, and Mental Health Questionnaire were used. The data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis tests, using SPSS 24 software. Findings There was a positive and significant correlation between religious commitment and hardness (r=0.206; p=0.040), mental health (r=0.122; p=0.027), and its components including physical symptoms (r=0.273; p=0.027), anxiety (r=0.239; p=0.023), social dysfunction (r=0.319; p=0.037), and depression (r=0.239; p=0.042). Also, 4% of variance of hardness (p=0.05) and 15% of variance of mental health (p=0.02) were predicted by religious commitment. Conclusion There is correlation between religious commitment with hardness and mental health among veterans’ spouses; as the veterans’ spouses with high religious commitment have more hardness and mental health. A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O