M.A. Thesis:

The Relationship between Tendency to Prayer and Educational Compatibility and Citizenship Behavior in Students of Islamic Azad University of Sabzevr

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between prayer orientation and spiritual health and educational adjustment in students of Sabzevar Islamic Azad University. The research method in the present study was correlation. The statistical population in this study included all students of Sabzevar Azad University in the academic year 2019-20, including 4764 people. Relative stratified sampling method was used for sampling. Also, based on the size of the population, 356 students were selected as a sample. In order to measure the variables used in the research, there were three questionnaires: Attitude to prayer (Nademi, 2017), Pulotzin and Ellison (1982) spiritual health questionnaire and educational adjustment questionnaire (Sinha and Singh, 1993), whose validity and reliability were determined by several A number of professors and specialists in this field were approved. The reliability of the questionnaires based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient for prayer orientation was 0.95, spiritual health 0.84 and educational compatibility 0.70. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (Spearman, Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test) were used for analysis. The results of statistical tests showed that there is a significant positive relationship between prayer orientation and spiritual health and the relationship between prayer orientation and educational adjustment. There is a positive meaning and there is also a positive relationship between spiritual health and academic adjustment.

Keywords: Keywords: Tendency to prayer, spiritual health, academic adjustment