The role of Spiritual and Psychological Well-being in Predicting High-risk Behaviors of Young Prisoners in Zanjan
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Fatemeh Mozaffari; Masoud Hejazi
- Source
- پژوهش در دین و سلامت, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 32-44 (2019)
- Subject
- High-risk behaviors
Prisoners' youth
Psychological well-being
Spiritual well-being
Other systems of medicine
RZ201-999
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
Religion (General)
BL1-50
- Language
- Persian
- ISSN
- 2383-4331
2383-4323
For downloading the full-text of this article please click here. Background and Objective: High-risk behaviors are particularly important when young people are considered to be failures and offenses. That’s why identifying effective factors in preventing or reducing these behaviors is really important. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the role of spiritual and psychological well-being in predicting high-risk behaviors of young prisoners in Zanjan city. Method: The research method was descriptive-correlation. The population included all the young prisoners in Zanjan aged between 18 and 35 (n=500). The sample size was calculated 220 using Cochran method. The participants were selected using random sampling. The data collection tool were standard questionnaires of high-risk behaviors by Mohammad Khani, psychological well-being by Riff, and spiritual well-being by Paloutzian and Ellison. Pearson correlation test and multiple regression were used for data analysis. All ethical issues were observed in this study and the researchers reported no conflicts of interest. Results: There is a significant relationship between spiritual well-being and religious well-being with high-risk behaviors (p