The Relationship between Religious Beliefs, Life Expectancy, and Life Satisfaction with Students' Addiction

The present study was aimed to determine the relationship between implementation of religious beliefs, life expectancy, and satisfaction in life with students' addiction in boys' schools in 2015. The research method was practical in terms of objective, and it was correlational-descriptive in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the study consisted of 2700 high-school second-grade male students in Tehran, from whom 336 students were selected as a sample, using Cochran formula and the stratified cluster sampling method. The data collection method was implemented based on four standard questionnaires: "Readiness for addiction" of Veed and Butcher (1992), "Following Religious Beliefs" (2000) of Golzari, "Life Expectancy" (1991) of Schneider et al, and "Life satisfaction" of Diener et al (1985). The reliability of the questionnaires was measured using Cronbach's Alpha method, which was over 0.7 for all four questionnaires. In addition, content validity was used in order to measure the validity of the questionnaires; hence the questionnaires were approved by experts. The analysis of the data obtained from the implementation of the questionnaires through SPSS software was done in two sections: 1- descriptive and inferential (Pearson correlation test, and multifold regression). The results of the study showed that there is a significant negative relationship between variables such as application of religious beliefs, life expectancy and satisfaction with students' addiction. In addition, the three variables, i.e. application of religious beliefs, life expectancy and satisfaction predict students' addiction.