Ravanshenasi & Din

This study's purpose is to test the hypothesis of whether there is a relationship between religious doctrines (if transformed to measurable parameter) in the domain of happiness, and the psychological happiness and depression. Furthermore, can we create an instrument based on religious sources to measure happiness? The present study has investigated this relationship in 42 male and female married students in Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute in Qom. To this end, a questionnaire of happiness Components based on the Prophet and Imams' traditions was prepared and validated and presented to the sample group along with the Oxford happiness inventory and the Beck's depression inventory. Then the data were analyzed using Pearson's product-moment correlation procedure. The results revealed that religious happiness has a Significant positive relationship with psychological happiness, and a Significant negative relationship with depression. In view of these relationships, this study shows that an instrument can be created based on religious sources for measuring religious and unreligious individuals' happiness. Furthermore, the negative relationship with depression reveals that some interVenting can be arranged to somehow change the lifestyle of the depressed people through Practicing some religious parameters of happiness.