Spirituality, time management and academic achievement:Spiritual time-working

Document Type : پژوهشی

Author

• hassan boland

guilan university

10.22067/ijap.v4i1.33309

Abstract

The aim of this research is to prepare a ground for suggesting the construct of "spiritual time-working": (a set of inter-related cognitive, behavioral, and emotional components pertaining to time in a religious way of living) through studying the relationship between spirituality, time management and academic achievement. The "Students Spiritual Orientation Questionnaire" and The "Time Management Individual Skills Scale" were administrated on 214 Guilan university students who was selected through multistage cluster random sampling and their past semester mean of scores was recorded as an academic achievement measure. Data was analysed according to both casual and correlational interpretations of variables relationships. The students who had higher spiritual tendencies were significantly more capable in time management than students with lower spiritual tendencies (p

Keywords

• Spirituality
• Time management
• Spiritual time-working
• religiosity
• Academic Achievement

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