The Relationship Between Trust-in-God, Positive and Negative Affect, and Hope

Abstract

We aimed to test the relationships between Trust-in-God, positive and negative affect, and feelings of hope. A sample of university students (N = 282, 50 % female) completed the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale, and a Persian measure of Trust-in-God for Muslims. The results of a series of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that Trust-in-God was positively associated with participants' scores for hope and positive affect but was negatively associated with their scores for negative affect. The results support the relationship between Trust-in-God and indices of mental health.

Measures of God representations: Theoretical framework and critical review.

“…They may include ways of thinking about God that are irrelevant to those populations and/or miss out on especially pertinent aspects of those populations' faith. As an example, the Trust-in-God Questionnaire (Fadardi & Azadi, 2017) used sample verses from the Quran in order to develop questions from an Islamic viewpoint, a perspective that would be missed if adapting pre-existing scales developed for Christians. There is a need for God representation measures that are broadly applicable and validated for use within a wide variety of religious/spiritual populations (e.g., the Multi-Faith Religious Support Scale; Bjorck & Maslim, 2011), as well as measures that are uniquely tailored for use with members of a specific faith tradition (e.g., the Muslim Experiential Religiousness Scale [Ghorbani, Watson, Geranmayepour, & Chen, 2014]; Hill & Edwards, 2013).…”

Depression, Hope and Social Support Among Older People With Cancer: A Comparison of Muslim Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Cancer Patients

“…In line with Islamic belief, the medical outcome for many Muslims depends on their faith. They are con dent that God will remove barriers and enable individuals to reach their goals, which may, in turn, result in higher levels of hope [23]. The rst hypothesis of this study, therefore, was that Muslim Palestinians people diagnosed with cancer would report higher levels of hope in comparison to those reports by their Jewish Israeli counterparts.…”

“I had hope. I loved this city once.”: A mixed methods study of hope within the context of poverty

“…Another limitation is that religiosity was not measured in this study. Hope and religiosity have been shown to correlate with one another in some studies (Fadardi & Azadi, 2017;Ottaviani et al, 2014). Other research indicates that hope can serve as a mediator for other constructs (Demirli et al, 2015;Sandage et al, 2014), that religiosity can predict the level of hope (Ciarrochi & Heaven, 2012), and that hope predicts future well-being especially among individuals in transition (e.g.…”