Ravanshenasi Wa Din, Volume 4, Issue 4, No 16, Year 2012, Pages 27-41

    The Relationship of Religious Behavior and Self-Consciousness with Cognitive Failures among the Middle-aged

    Article Type: 
    Research
    Writers:
    Abbas Abolghasemi / Associate professor of Psychology department, Muhaqqiq Ardabli University / abolghasemi_44@Yahoo.com
    Azar Abul-Qasimi / Faculty member of Ardabil Azad Islamic University.
    Abdolsamad Samad Aaq / MA in Clinical Psychology.
    27-41 2011/10/12 2012/02/29 2012/02/16
    Abstract: 
    he present paper tries to determine the relationship of religious behavior and self-consciousness with cognitive failures among the middle-aged. The sample includes 394 middle-aged people form Ardabil who were selected through ordinary random sampling. The scale of religious behavior, the scale of self-consciousness and a questionnaire on cognitive failures were used to gather data. Such statistical methods as Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions were used to analyze the research findings. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was a significant negative relationship between religious behavior and cognitive failures among the middle-aged. The results of regression analysis of various variables showed that self-consciousness and religious behavior is %16 of the variance of cognitive failures among the middle-aged. These results show that high standards of religious behavior and self-consciousness decreases cognitive failures.
    Keywords: 
    self-consciousness
    religious behavior
    cognitive failures
    the middle-aged.
    چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
    Title :ارتباط رفتارهای دینی و خودآگاهی با نارسایی‌های شناختی در میانسالان
    Abstract: 
    هـدف این پژوهش، تعیین ارتباط رفتارهای دینی و خودآگاهی با نارسایی های شناختی در میانسالان است. نمونه این پژوهش، 394 میانسال شهر اردبیل بوده که به صورت تصادفی ساده انتخاب شده اند. برای جمع آوری داده ها از مقیاس رفتار دینی، مقیاس خودآگاهی و پرسش نامه نارسایی های شناختی استفاده شده است. داده های پژوهش با روش های ضریب همبستگی پیرسون و رگرسیون چند متغیری تجزیه و تحلیل شده است. نتایج ضریب همبستگی پیرسون نشان می دهد که رفتارهای دینی و خودآگاهی با نارسایی های شناختی میانسالان رابطه منفی معناداری دارند. نتایج تحلیل رگرسیون چند متغیری نیز نشان می هد که خودآگاهی و رفتارهای دینی 16 درصد از واریانس نارسایی های شناختی میانسالان را تبیین می کنند. این نتایج بیان می کند که سطح بالای رفتارهای دینی و خودآگاهی، نارسایی های شناختی را کاهش می دهد.
    Keywords: 
    خودآگاهی
    رفتارهای دینی
    نارسایی‌های شناختی و میانسالان.
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