Relationship between religious orientation, perfectionism and self-efficacy with stress in university students

Pages: 1517-1520
Roghieh Noori Pour and Mina Amini Zadeh (Family Counseling, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)
Natália Ribeiro, Alexandre Schier, Flávia Paes, (Adriana Cardoso Silva and Antonio Egidio Nardi Panic and Respiration Laboratory, Institute of Psychiatry of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Sergio Machado (Panic and Respiration Laboratory, Institute of Psychiatry of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Brazil)
Joshua J. Matacotta (California School of Professional Psychology California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA)

This study investigated relationship between religious orientation, perfectionism and self-efficacy with stress in university students. The study sample included 250 students (117 female and 133 male) in Shahid Beheshti University who were selected by using stratified sampling. To collect data, Religious Orientation Scale (ROS), The Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (MCPI-E), New General Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (NGSE) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) were used. Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis showed that religious orientation has significant and negative impact on stress, self-efficacy has significant and negative effect on stress and finally, subscales of perfectionism have significant and positive effect on stress. As results showed, among variables of religious orientation, perfectionism and self-efficacy, self-efficacy is the best stress predictor.