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Objectives: The purpose of the present research has been to determine the role of religiosity in preventing juvenile delinquency (robbery) in Tehran on the basis of religiosity perspective theoretical and social integration, and the aim has been to provide the sociological analysis of religiosity as solution for confronting to juvenile delinquency. Method: The research method is survey and a kind of causal- comparative. In tense of time, it is cross- sectional and in tense of intensive it is a kind of extensive the data, and have been collected through questionnaire. Finding & Results: The results of this study shows that there is a significiant difference between religiousity and delinquency rate of typical(non delinquent) and confined (delinquent) juvenile group in significance of % 95. The theoretical finding of the research showed that although it is possible to describe the seperated and direct relalation between each one of independent variables (religious aspect) and the dependent variable (the rate of delinquency), based on religiousity and social integration theories, but the result of multi variable analysis shows, only consequentive aspect of religiousituy has a direct effect on delinquency and it proved to have the greatest share in explaining the preventing juvenile delinquency.

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Objectires: Totally, programms of substance usage prevention can be divided into two parts of supply and demand reduction. Although numerus activities was done in supply reduction part, today an increase in substance usage is observed among young people. Therfore, determination of factors which can prevent the substance usage are important and necessery. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between religiosity and self control with substance abuse.
Method: Sample group was consisted of 386 male students from university of Tehran that were selected by stratified random sampling method. The study instruments were Addiction Acknowledgment Scale, Mac Andrew Alcoholism Scale-R, Low Self- Control Scale- Revised and Religious Attitude scales.
 Findings: The data analysis by Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANVCOVA) showed that there was negative correlation between religisity and substance abuse, that is, higher score in religisity accompanies with low probability in substance abuse. Moreover, findings indicated that there was a negative correlation between low self control and substance abuse, in other words, one who has low level of self- control in substance abuse is faced with high risk with higher probablity. 
Discussion: religion can be considered as a preventive factor to substance abuse. Therefore, parents and educatioal centers can decrese the substance use probablity via enhancment of religional belifes.

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Objective: The main objective of this study is to explore the relationship between "emotional perceived social support" and "mental health". Furthermore, the present study seeks to investigate the direct and indirect effects of gender, religiosity, and social class (as sources of social support), as well as social support, on mental health status. Method: The study has been conducted via survey method and data collected by self-administered questionnaire. The universe of the study was students of the Mazandaran University, and 400 students were chosen through proportional stratified random sampling. Mental health status is measured by SCL-25 and social support is measured by the multidimensional scale of perceived social support by Zimet (1988). Findings: Almost one third of the students recognized as having proper mental health. More than half of the students received high level of social support, and family was its most important source followed by important others and friends. Female and those who were belonged to higher social class enjoyed the higher levels of social support. Furthermore, there was a direct, significant relationship between perceived social support and mental health, and gender difference in the rate of mental health is proved, showing that the male students enjoyed better mental health status than females. The relations of social class and religiosity with mental health of students were not significant. Also, gender, social class, and religiosity were associated with perceived social support. Finally, applying multivariate regression analysis, it has been appeared that the rate of students’ mental health was under direct influence of such variables as perceived social support and gender. Furthermore, such variables as social class and religiosity had indirect effects on mental health, through increasing social support. However, perceived social support was the strongest predictor of the students’ mental health. Conclusion: Enjoying high level of social support is a source of proper mental health. With respect to findings of this study, it is necessary that policy makers, focus on ways of promoting social support and religious beliefs, and pay more attention to mental health issues among female and lower social class students to increase their coping skills.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the role of religiosity dimensions and coping styles in the predicting general health of mothers of children with and without intellectual disabilities (ID). Method: A total of 124 mothers of children with ID and 124 mothers without a child with ID were matched and selected using cluster sampling. Data were collected using general health questionnaire (GHQ), Islamic religiosity scale (IRS) and way of coping questionnaire (WOCQ). Findings: Mothers of children with ID had more social dysfunction, somatic symptoms, depression and anxiety than mothers of children without ID. Religiosity had a significant role in finding the meaning and hence improvement of health status of mothers of children with ID. Positive reappraisal had more important role in improvement of social function of mothers of children with ID than in mothers of normal children. Conclusions: Religious belief can help mothers of children with ID to cope with child care problems, to find meaning of life and to improve their health status. Further, education of mothers to accept their disabled child improve their physical, mental, and social function.

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Introduction: Social Trust is considered as a social phenomenon that plays a vital role in human interactions and its relationships. Researches have shown that religion can be an important factor in the production of social trust. The purpose of the present paper is to do a sociological analysis of the relationship between religiosity and social trust.

 

Method: This study is a survey. The statistical population is students of Behbahan Islamic Azad University in the period of 1392-1393. Among them, 346 were randomly selected by using Cochran formula and then the questionnaires were distributed among them.

 

Results: The results showed that a significant positive correlation between the ideological, religious and ritual implications and interpersonal trust is fundamental. There is also a significant positive correlation between religiosity and trust in the basic experiment.

 

Discussion: About the paradox in the relationship among religious dimensions, generalized and institutionalized trust maybe this interpretation is correct to say that whether religiosity is superficial or regarding trust issues, the living environment is so badly damaged and traumatized that even religiosity of the people cannot persuade them to act with good will.

 

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Introduction: Social Trust is considered as a social phenomenon that plays a vital role in human interactions and its relationships. Researches have shown that religion can be an important factor in the production of social trust. The purpose of the present paper is to do a sociological analysis of the relationship between religiosity and social trust.

Method: This study is a survey. The statistical population is students of Behbahan Islamic Azad University in the period of 1392-1393. Among them, 346 were randomly selected by using Cochran formula and then the questionnaires were distributed among them.

Findings: The results showed that a significant positive correlation between the ideological, religious and ritual implications and interpersonal trust is fundamental. There is also a significant positive correlation between religiosity and trust in the basic experiment.

Discussion: About the paradox in the relationship among religious dimensions, generalized and institutionalized trust maybe this interpretation is correct to say that whether religiosity is superficial or regarding trust issues, the living environment is so badly damaged and traumatized that even religiosity of the people cannot persuade them to act with good will.

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Introduction: With regard to functions of religion in producing meaning and encouraging positive attitudes in life, present research investigates the relationship between religiosity and religion among people with physical disability in Tehran Hospices.

Method: This study has been done by survey and correlation design and questionnaires AL port’s religiosity and Oxford’s happiness among 248 persons People with Physical Disability in Tehran Hospices.

Findings: There is a strong correlation between intrinsic religiosity and extrinsic religiosity with happiness. In addition, this relationship is stronger in intrinsic religiosity with happiness than extrinsic religiosity.

Discussion: Although religiosity with producing knowledge about life and giving meaning in life, will provide proper framework for happiness of people with physical disability, but this relationship isn't linear and various possible mediators have effect on its that this relationship must be investigated separately.

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Method: The present research is based on the meta-analysis method. The materials of this research consists of all the scientific research studies conducted in Iran regarding the relationship between religiosity and happiness during the years 2008 to 2021, which is indexed in one of the scientific databases such as scientific information databases (Sid), Noor specialized journal website (Noormags), Information database of Iran’s publication (Magiran) and Iranian research institute for information science and technology (Irandoc). Among the 29 research documents that were found, seven research studies met the conditions and selection criteria and entered the comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA) software.
Findings: In the first step, publication bias and homogeneity of studies were examined. The statistical tests used in this section indicate the lack of publication bias and the heterogeneity of the studies. In the next step, the effect size of religiosity on happiness was evaluated and was found to be 0.277, which according to Cohen’s interpretation system is regarded as “small”. The sensitivity analysis test shows that by removing only one of the studies, the effect size of religiosity on happiness changes to 0.303, which is evaluated as “moderate” based on Cohen’s interpretation system.
Discussion: The findings show that although religiosity provides a suitable basis for happiness through giving coherence, giving hope, giving meaning to life, etc. however, the relationship between religiosity and happiness is not linear and causal, and several possible mediating factors affect it, and the effect of these relationships should also be examined separately.
 

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Introduction: Various factors influence high-risk behaviors. One of the important and influencing factors on people's behavior and actions is their religious beliefs. According to various experts, religion has a controlling role on the deviant behavior of people and always invites people to do good deeds and reward them in return. When children enter adolescence, the role of peers in their lives increases. Social support is one of the other variables that can play a role in reducing risky behaviors. The aim of the present study was to investigate religiosity, social support and peer rejection on high-risk behaviors of secondary school female students in Darudzen district of Shiraz.
Method: Descriptive, correlational research method and the target population included all students of the second secondary level of Darudzen district of Shiraz, which was announced based on the statistics of 600 people, and the research sample was 234 people based on the Morgan table, and this number of people was based on the sample method They were randomly selected. The measurement tools in this research included: Religiosity Questionnaire by Glock and Stark (1965), Risk Acceptance of Iranian Teenagers by Zadeh-Mohammadi and Ahmadabadi (2008), Peer Rejection by Tahmasian (1384) and Social Support by Fleming et al. (1982). Correlation test and regression analysis were used to analyze the data.
Findings: There is a negative relationship between religiosity, social support, and risky behaviors, and a significant positive relationship between peer rejection and risky behaviors among female high school students. In addition, religiosity, rejection of peers and social support are predictors of high-risk behaviors of female secondary school students.
Discussion: Religiosity, social support, peer rejection are determinants of students' high-risk behaviors.