Hopefulness and religious behaviors among adolescents in Yazd (Iran)

Introduction: One of the positive specialty and great affluence is hope in human body. In fact more hopefulness in life is related to, more mirth and happiness. Religiosity and religion behavior has important role for incidence personal and social behavior, and creation of hope and hopefulness. Methodology : This descriptive analytical and cross – sectional study carried out on 400 student of Yazd high schools , which entered in the study with stratified random sampling. HSA questionnaire, which its content validity was approved by an expert panel, was used for data collection. The reliability of the scales was approved by cronbach alpha test. Results: Level of hopefulness in studied group, was 74.9 % (1798.4 ± 274.27 of 2400), and level of religious behaviors was 55.4 % (22.16 ± 3.78 of 40). There was no significant relationship between level of hopefulness and religious behaviors with sex, father and mother education level and job, birth order, family size, number of sisters and brothers, but there was a significant relationship between hopefulness and religious behavior that means persons with higher religious behavior had more hopefulness. There was, also a significant relationship between level of hopefulness and students field, which in humanistic students was significantly lower than mathematical (PV = 0.000) and natural sciences students (PV = 0.004). Discussion and conclusion: As important role of hopefulness and religious behavior in adolescents and positive relationship between them, family and society are environments that promote these factors in young people.