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Depression Among Muslim Arab Students: The Contribution of Spiritual, Social, and Cognitive Factors
Qutaiba Agbaria
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2014.06.003
Al-Qasmie College-Baqa Elgharbieh, Baqa Elgharbieh, Israel
This study examines the correlation among a number of personal and environmental variables that can be related to decrease in depression. These are: religiosity, social support, and self-control. The participants in the study consisted of 280 Arab Muslims students from teacher training colleges in Israel. The findings indicate that all the resources that were examined related to decrease in depression, in other words, significant negative correlations were found between the level of religiosity, social support, and self-control on the one hand, and the level of depression on the other. These findings are consistent with those of other studies conducted elsewhere in the world on different populations (Christian and Jewish, as well as Muslim). The findings were discussed in accordance with a number of different theories.
Muslim Arab adolescents, depression, religiosity, social support, self-control
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