Page No.66-69
Mojtaba Aghili and G. Venkatesh Kumar
University of Mysore, Mysore
This article is part of a larger project, which investigated the relationship between
religious attitude and subjective well being among Iranian and Indian professional
employees. The present article focused on feeling of happiness among Iranian
population. The sample consists 1491 employees of which 744 were males and
747 were female. Religious attitude was measured by using Rajmanickam’s
Religious Attitude Scale and happiness was measure with The Oxford Happiness
Questionnaire by Hills & Argyle. The main findings of the present study were
that all the subscales of and total religious attitude were found to be highly
correlated with Happiness. Higher the religious attitude, higher was the
happiness. Further correlations revealed that higher the happiness more was
future life and spirits and spirit world and lastly, happiness though significantly
related, less correlated with formal religion aspect of religious attitude