Study of the Relationship between Domain-Specific Hope and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Students of Islamic Azad University of Gorgan – Iran

Abstract

Hope is one of psychological structures with very important predictive role in many mental conditions. Dysfunctional attitudes are activated immediately after negative events of life and after activation, they stimulate a pattern of information processing with negative orientations.Dysfunctional attitude may hinder students’ educational performance.The present study was formulated in order to determination of the relationship between specific-domain hope and dysfunctional attitudes in the students of Islamic Azad University of Gorgan – Iran.Two type of questionnaire were given to 333 students to evaluate their specific-domain hope and dysfunctional attitudes. Six sub-hypotheses were considered to determine the relationship between dysfunctional attitudes and six specific domain of hope, i.e. social relationships, academics, romantic relationships, family life, work, and leisure activities.The results obtained from the present study showed that there is a negative and insignificant relationship between specific-domain hope and dysfunctional attitudes (p>0.05). Also, it was revealed that among specific domains of hope, work domain of hope can best determine dysfunctional attitudes of students.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n1p593