Ravanshenasi Wa Din, Volume 7, Issue 2, No 26, Year 2025 , Pages 111-124

    The Relationship of Feeling Grateful to God with Personality and Positive Psychological Functioning in Iran and Poland

    Article Type: 
    Research
    Writers:
    ✍️ Naser Aghababaei / PhD Student in Psychology, Allameh Tabataba’i University / naseragha@gmail.com
    Agata Błachnio / Assistant Professor, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
    Pages: 111-124 Receive Date: 2025/04/08 Accept Date: 2025/04/08
    Abstract: 
    This research aimed to investigate the relationship of feeling grateful towards God with positive psychological functioning and personality factors. 226 Iranian and 220 Polish university students filled out “Gratitude toward God Questionnaire”, “HEXACO Personality Inventory-60”, “Subjective Happiness Scale”, “Satisfaction with Life Scale”, and “Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale”. Results showed that within both contexts feeling grateful to God was positively associated with happiness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, Honesty-Humility, and Extraversion. After controlling for personality, gratitude to God managed to significantly predict variances in positive functioning. Furthermore, the findings showed that the positive role of gratitude is independent of personality and has cross-cultural generality.
    Keywords: 
    : gratitude
    Religion
    God
    happiness
    Personality
    HEXACO
    چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
    Title :رابطه احساس قدردانی نسبت به خدا با شخصیت و کارکردهای مثبت روانی در ایران و لهستان
    Abstract: 
    هدف این پژوهش، بررسی رابطه احساس قدردانی نسبت به خدا با کارکردهای مثبت روانی و عامل های شخصیت بود. 226 دانشجوی ایرانی و 220 دانشجوی لهستانی به «پرسش نامه قدردانی نسبت به خدا»، «پرسش نامه شخصیت هگزاکو-60»، «مقیاس شادی فاعلی»، «مقیاس رضایت از زندگی»، و «مقیاس حرمت خود روزنبرگ» پاسخ دادند. یافته ها نشان داد که در هر دو بافت، احساس قدردانی نسبت به خدا با نمره های بالا در شادی، رضایت از زندگی، حرمت خود، صداقت- فروتنی، و برون گرائی رابطه مثبت داشت. احساس قدردانی نسبت به خدا، پس از کنترل شخصیت نیز توانست مقادیر معناداری از تغییرات در کارکردهای مثبت روانی را پیش بینی کند. همچنین یافته های این پژوهش نشان داد که نقش مثبت قدردانی مستقل از شخصیت است و دارای عمومیت میان- فرهنگی می باشد.
    Keywords: 
    دین
    شخصیت
    خدا
    شادی
    قدردانی
    هگزاکو
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