the relationship between religious attitudes and academic motivation of nursing and midwifery students: a descriptive-analytical study

Religious attitude is one of the factors affecting mental health; thus, considering motivation as a psychological factor, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between religious attitudes and academic motivation of nursing and midwifery students. this descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 139 nursing and midwifery students of shiraz university of medical sciences who were selected randomly in 2016. the questionnaire consisted of 3 parts of demographic data, religious attitude questionnaire of religion attitude scalereview (ras-r), and academic motivation adopted from the questionnaire developed by hermens. the mean score of the students’ academic achievement motivation was 83.56 ± 8.29, and that of religious attitude was 97.2 ± 15.5. the relationship between the total score of the student's academic motivation and religious attitudes based on the pearson correlation coefficient test was significant, with p < 0.001 at a significance level of 0.01. based on the linear regression test, also the relationship between the two variables at a significance level of ≤ 0.05 was significant with p < 0.001, r = 0.412, and r^2 = 0.164. so, a positive relationship was observed between religious attitudes and academic achievement motivation in students.