The relationship between religious orientation,and gender with a cognitive distortion

Objective: the objective of this study was to determine the relationship between religious orientation (intrinsic-external) and cognitive distortions. methods: general design of this study considered as a descriptive and correlational method. universal population in this research consist all students of the urmia azad university,which were studying during 2012 and 2013 (n = 250). all respondents filled the alports religious and cognitive distortions questionnaires. the answers were analyzed with step by step regression and correlation method. results: the research showed a significant relationship between the religious orientation and cognitive distortions (p < 0.005) (p < 0.001). conclusion: the results suggest that religious orientation is an important factor in cognitive distortions and individuals with intrinsic religious orientation have less cognitive distortion.