J Relig Health (2017) 56:796806

DOI 10.1007/s10943-015-0134-2

ORIGINAL PAPER

The Relationship Between Trust-in-God, Positive

and Negative Affect, and Hope

Javad S. Fadardi1,2 Zeinab Azadi1

Published online: 6 October 2015

Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Abstract We aimed to test the relationships between Trust-in-God, positive and negative
affect, and feelings of hope. A sample of university students (N = 282, 50 % female)
completed the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale,
and a Persian measure of Trust-in-God for Muslims. The results of a series of hierarchical
regression analyses indicated that Trust-in-God was positively associated with participants
scores for hope and positive affect but was negatively associated with their scores for
negative affect. The results support the relationship between Trust-in-God and indices of
mental health.

Keywords Trust-in-God
Hope
Positive affect
Negative affect

Introduction

Human beings are known to be creatures who deliberately set goals and pursue them based
on their beliefs and desires (Knight et al. 2004). Individuals reactions to life events do not
depend solely on their age, gender, social culture, religious beliefs, and other factors.
Almost all of what a person does is to achieve a goal, i.e., everything that people want to
achieve, perform, experience, or create (Snyder et al. 2002). Goals may be long-term, and
months or even years may be spent in achieving them, or they may be short-term and
require only a few minutes or seconds. In addition, goals may be abstract and general or
objective and specific. Therefore, from an ideographical viewpoint, people may differ in

& Javad S. Fadardi

j.s.fadardi@um.ac.ir
Zeinab Azadi
Azadi_zeinab@yahoo.com
1
Department of Psychology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
2
Bangor University, Bangor, UK

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their attempts to pursue similar goals such as work, marriage, and self-growth (Klinger and
Cox 2011).
Hope, as a master personality variable, influences the achievement of goals. As Snyder
(2002) elegantly puts it, hope resembles a rainbow or a prism that scatters the light into
various colors, each of which can raise individuals spirits under different conditions and
help them accomplish their goals with success and joy. Therefore, in the work of many
positive psychologists, hope is a central concept, and closely related to other concepts such
as creativity, optimism, happiness, courage, and interpersonal skills (Feldman and Snyder
2005), one of the human strengths that can shed light into peoples lives (Peterson 2000).
The two-component model of hope proposed by Snyder et al. (1991) contains (a) an
agency component, which indicates that feelings of success have resulted from being
determined to achieve goals in the past, present, and future; (b) a pathway component,
which refers to the feeling of being able to create plans in order to achieve goals. Goals can
be achieved through a combination of sources and pathways. Therefore, higher levels of
hope in areas related to cognitiveemotional functioning and physical activity could be
related to higher levels of adaptive functioning (Wells 2006). There is much empirical
evidence on the positive role of hope in predicting mental and physical health. For
instance, evidence indicates that hope is inversely related to depression and negative
emotion (Snyder et al. 1991, 1996).
According to the theory of hope, goals are an individuals main source of excitement. A
feeling of positive excitement can result from achieving a goal or from believing that one
will soon be able to do so; in contrast, a negative emotion can result from failing to achieve
a goal or from believing that one is far from achieving it (Snyder et al. 2002). Evidence
based on the motivational model of substance abuse (Cox and Klinger 2011) indicates that
reduced chances of success have reportedly been associated with increases in negative
emotions, which, in turn, have been associated with increases in the possibility of resorting
to substance abuse (Fadardi and Cox 2008).
Watson et al. (1988) developed a measure of affective states called the Positive and
Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). A positive affect (PA) is the state by which one
shows the experience of positive emotions such as enthusiasm, joy, and alertness (Watson
2000). Those who experience high PA usually experience a strong sense of well-being
which is associated with strong interpersonal relationships (Thoresen et al. 2003), feelings
of high energy, full concentration and enjoyable engagement with their environment, and
better health (Freak-Poli et al. 2015). In contrast, people with low PA usually suffer from
sadness and lethargy: They tend to withdraw from their environment, do not try hard
enough to enhance their positive mood and emotion, and do not have a positive view of
themselves. Moreover, high NA indicates a general dimension of internal discomfort and
unpleasant engagement in anger, contempt, disgust, guilt, fear, and nervousness (Watson
et al. 1988). The two emotional dimensions are associated with broad classes of psycho-
logical factors. NA is experienced along with stress and is correlated with poor coping,
health-related complaints, and experiencing unpleasant events (Mulligan et al. 2014; von
Kanel et al. 2005). This dimension is an underlying common factor in anxiety and
depression (Payne and Schnapp 2014). Positive affect, by contrast, is related to social
satisfaction, hope, enthusiasm, happiness, and consciousness, and its reduction is the
underlying and specific factor in depressive disorders (Bakhshipour and Dezhkam 2006).
Much attention has been paid in medical and psychological research to the effects of
religion and spirituality on individuals mental health (Lucchetti and Lucchetti 2014).
Psychologists, in fact, maintain that religiosity and spirituality play a major role in an
individuals health (Hill and Pargament 2008). In many studies, the relationships between

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spirituality and religiosity, health and quality of life, and the ability to cope with disease
have been studied and interpreted (Bussing et al. 2007a; Karademas 2010; Koenig et al.
2001; Lewis and Cruise 2006; McClain et al. 2003; Mclllmurray et al. 2003; Sloan and
Bagiella 2002; Sloan et al. 1999). The majority of the studies concluded that people of faith
are better able to cope with their disorders. Religiosity can also have a positive impact on
peoples relationships with others. In an experimental study, Tan and Vogel (2008) found
that, compared with less religious participants, those who were known to be more religious
were trusted more by their partners in a trust game.
According to the teachings of divine religions, Trust-in-God pertains to matters that are
outside of mans authority and full control. Trust-in-God accompanies the truster in the
way ahead and assures the person that his/her actions are resourceful (Ghanbari 2010).
Trust-in-God brings the truster inner peace and confidence. One of the outcomes of Trust-
in-God is relying on ones hope in Gods grace and blessing rather than solely on people.
Within the Islamic context of the present study, we quote two relevant verses from the
Quran: And [Allah] will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever
relies upon Allah then He is sufficient for him. Indeed, Allah will accomplish His purpose.
Allah has already set for everything a [decreed] extent. (65, 23).
Bussing et al. (2009) found that relying on religion and spirituality (e.g., Trust-in-God)
as an internal resource of control was a strong predictor for coping with diseases associated
with chronic pain. Mickley et al. (1992) found that in cancer patients, hopefulness was
positively related to spiritual well-being and Trust-in-God. In patients with chronic pain,
positive religious coping strategies were associated with positive emotion and positive
religious consequences (e.g., developing spirituality, closeness to God, satisfaction from a
religious life) (Bush et al. 1999). In addition, elderly religious people had higher levels of
well-being and hope as well as better results on mental and physical health indices than
non-religious people of the same age (Van Ness and Larson 2002). Ciarrocchi et al. (2008)
reported that having a relationship with God and spiritual commitment were positive
predictors of hope and optimism. In Bussing and Mundles (2009) study, depressed
patients showed less reliance on Gods help than substance abusers, whereas those with
high levels of reliance on Gods help showed less depression and higher levels of satis-
faction with life.
Although many studies have been conducted on the psychology of religion and spiri-
tuality (Lucchetti and Lucchetti 2014), there is still much to do on the interactive rela-
tionship between religion and science. As the outcomes of a study by Seybold and Hill
(2001) imply, even if there is not much evidence concerning the mechanisms by which
religious beliefs and strategies do good to believers, health researchers and health service
providers should not restrict their understanding of the important roles of religion and
spirituality in mental and physical health. There is still much for mental health practitioners
to do in relation to the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality (e.g.,
closeness to God, religious orientation and motivation, religious support, and religious
activities) and how they can be related to mental and physical health (Hill and Pargament
2008; Nicdao and Ai 2014).
In Islamic beliefs, Trust-in-God is a belief in Gods will throughout the human lifespan,
and it includes entrusting affairs to Him (Allah). Such reliance is expected to increase
personal activity and mental composure in the truster, and it should also preserve the
person from feelings of hopelessness and negative emotions. A general command is given
to the Prophet Mohammad in the Quran (18, 2324): And never say of anything, indeed, I
will do that tomorrow, except for [when adding], If Allah wills.

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To summarize, it is generally believed that thinking and acting in accordance with the
rules of a divine religion are associated with a sense of inner peace, hope, and positive
emotions. Due to the scarcity of research within Islamic cultures on the relationship
between Trust-in-God and believers mental health indices, the present study was con-
ducted to test the relationship between Trust-in-God, positive and negative affect, and hope
among a sample of Iranian Muslim students.

Methods

Participants

Participants were selected from among undergraduate male and female students of Fer-
dowsi University of Mashhad living in the universitys campus residence halls. They were
approached randomly by the research assistant, who asked them to complete the study
questionnaires if they wished to take part in the study on a voluntary basis. Finally, 282
students (50 % female) took part in the study. This number met the sample size based on a
Power Analysis (see Table 2).

Table 1 Dimensions and relevant sample verses from the Quran that were used to develop questions for the
Trust-in-God Questionnaire (TGQ)
Dimension Sample verses from Quran Question/s in the TQG

Strength Put your trust in Allah, and Allah is All- I do not believe in saying If God is
of belief sufficient as a Disposer of affairs. (33: 3) willing.
Those who are steadfast and on their Lord I will say If God Is Willing as soon as I
they rely. (16: 42) remember that I have forgotten it prior to
Excellent the reward of the workers. Who doing something.
are patient and on their Lord they rely.
(29: 5859)
Thee do we serve, and Thee do we beseech
for help. (1: 5)
Doing, And make provision for yourselves. (2:197) When I am about to do something, I say If
decision- And never say of anything, indeed, I will do God is willing.
making that tomorrow, except for [when adding], If When I am going to make a decision, I keep
Allah wills. (18: 2324) God in mind.
Allah belong the unseen secrets of the
heavens and the earth, and to Him goes
back every affair for decision: then
worship Him, and put your trust in Him:
your Lord is not unmindful of what you
do. (11: 123)
Future and And will provide for him from where he I say If God Is Willing before talking
certainty does not expect. And whoever relies upon about something which may happen in the
Allah then He is sufficient for him. Indeed, future.
Allah will accomplish His purpose. Allah
has already set for everything a [decreed]
extent. (65: 23)
Nothing will happen to us except what Allah
has decreed for us: He is our protector. In
Allah let the believers put their trust.(9:
51)

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Instruments

The Trust-in-God Questionnaire

The Trust-in-God Questionnaire (TGQ) is a researcher-compiled questionnaire designed to

measure the extent to which people believe in God and His role in their lives from an
Islamic viewpoint. It consists of five questions in response to which participants select one
of five choices (never, sometimes, often, most of the times, always). The content validity of
the measure is based on verses from the Quran. The relevance of the measures questions to
Trust-in-God n accordance with Islamic beliefs was confirmed by several experts in
Islamic issues. Table 1 shows five dimensions that we extracted based on verses of the
Quran which describe the necessity for believers to have Trust-in-God and also encourage
them to take personal responsibility in the course of their daily affairsthose that can be
under their own control. The questionnaire was administered twice to the current sample of
80 university students, and a testretest reliability of r = 0.78 was calculated for the
measure. The testretest interval was between 6 and 8 weeks. Participants received the
electronic version of the TGQ 6 weeks after the test phase and mailed it back after
completing it. A Cronbachs alpha of a = 0.67 was calculated for the TGQ as the mea-
sures internal consistency. In addition, to address the question of whether our TGQ is a
spiritual measure or simply another facet of the personality dimension of agreeableness or
conscientiousness (Schuurmans-Stekhoven 2013), we conducted a separate correlational
study with a sample of 52 university students (N = 52, mean age = 21.50; SD = 2.25;
55 % female). The results of a correlational analysis, partialling out for the effects of age
(Laursen et al. 2002), showed a nonsignificant relationship between scores on the TGQ and
Goldbergs agreeableness, r = 0.15; p = 0.14, and Goldbergs conscientiousness sub-
scales, r = 0.22; p = 0.060 (Joshanloo and Afshari 2009; Kjell et al. 2013).
A critical reader might argue that part of the associations observed in the present study
could result from a response bias of positivity in ratings or acquiescence: that is, a tendency
to agree with the statements (Knowles and Nathan 1997). However, research suggests that
acquiescence is mostly observed in surveys which employ questions that are related to
truism (e.g., giving donations is a good thing), especially when the person is in doubt as to
which side of a statement to choose, or when social desirability is an issue (e.g., when
taking a personality test whose results a clinician is going to interpret) (Knowles and
Nathan 1997). We believe that the TGQ questions do not include social truism; that the
questions are not vague; and that, due to participant anonymity (e.g., Lelkes et al. 2012),
social desirability could be less of a factor than it would be otherwise. Moreover, the TGQ
has one question (Question 1) which is reverse-keyed, a recommended technique to reduce
acquiescence (Erikson 2011). Meisenberg and Williams (2008) argued that there tends to
be less acquiescence bias among better educated and more intelligent respondents. How-
ever, future research can focus on testing the potential impact of this and other sources of
bias by employing the guidelines provided by Erikson (2011) and Podsakoff et al. (2003).

The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

The PANAS measures peoples current affective status. The measures total scores range
from 10 to 50 for each positive and negative affective state. There is sufficient evidence in
support of the validity and reliability of the PANAS (Watson et al. 1988) and of a Persian
version of the measure (Azizi 2010).

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The Adult Hope Scale (AHS)

Snyder et al. (1991) developed the AHS as a self-report hope questionnaire for people over
the age of 15. The AHS contains the two subscales of pathway and motivation (Snyder
et al. 1991, 1996). A total score can be calculated through summing up the subscale scores.
A Cronbachs alpha of a = 0.77 was calculated for the Persian version of the AHS as an
index of the measures internal consistency.

Procedure

After obtaining the necessary permissions from the Ethics Committee of the Department of
Psychology and the university headmasters of student residence halls, the research assistant
approached potential participants at their places of residence. After explaining the study to
them (as a psychological study based on a series of self-report questionnaires) and
obtaining their informed consent for their participation, the research assistant asked them
to complete the study questionnaires individually. Participants were not required to write
their personal information on any forms. Upon returning the completed questionnaires,
participants were debriefed about the goals of the study and thanked for their participation.
Because participation in the study was voluntary, no payment was made to the participants.

Results

The means and SDs of participants ages, and their scores on the TGQ, AHD, and PANAS,
are presented in Table 2.
Table 3 shows the results of Spearman and Pearson correlations among the study
variables. The pattern of correlations among gender, age, and education and Trust-in-God,
hope, PA, and NA provides a rationale for controlling their effects in the regression model
testing the studys hypotheses. Moreover, the table shows a negative correlation between
NA and hope (Table 4).
Three hierarchical regression models were used to test the studys hypotheses con-
cerning the relationship between Trust-in-God, hope, and positive and negative affect. In
all models, the effects of gender, age, and education were controlled in the first step, and
scores from the TGQ were entered into the second step as the predictor variable. The

Table 2 Demographic charac-

Gender
teristics of participants according
to gender Female (n = 140) Male (n = 142)

M SD M SD

Age 19.94 2.21 20.47 1.31

Education (term) 3.40 1.99 3.38 1.43
Trust-in-God 19.68 3.82 17.65 4.02
Hope 25.11 3.73 24.85 3.81
Positive affect 34.34 6.63 35.72 6.20
Negative affect 28.38 8.72 25.36 7.80

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Table 3 Correlation matrix among variables entered into the regression models
Trust-in-God Gender Age Education Hope Positive affect

Gender -.24***
Age -.02 .14**
Educations -.12* .01 .51***
Hope .14** -.02 .19*** .09
Positive affect .24*** .13** .08 -.04 .54***
Negative affect -.05 -.18*** -.03 .12* -.30*** -.27***

Gender was coded as female = 0; male = 1

* p \ 0.05; ** p \ 0.01; *** p \ 0.001

predicted variable in the models were scores indicating the participants hope, PA, and NA,
respectively (Table 4).
In the first regression model, the first step (age, gender, and education) accounted for
4 % of the hope variance (R2 = 0.04, F(3,275) = 3.51, p \ 0.05). The second step (Trust-
in-God) led to a significant 4 % increment in the variance of hope over the proportion
already accounted for in the first step (DR2 = 0.06, F(3,274) = 4.05, p \ 0.01).
The second regression model regressing Trust-in-God on PA led to significant change in
the first step (R2 = 0.03, F(3,275) = 2.59, p \ 0.05) and the second step (DR2 = 0.10,
F(1,274) = 7.51, p \ 0.05), indicating that Trust-in-God, per se, could positively predict
10 % of change in the variance of PA.
In the third regression model, the first step accounted for 5 % of NA variance
(R2 = 0.05, F(3,275) = 5.17, p \ 0.01). However, in the second step, Trust-in-God
accounted for a 6 % increment in the variance of NA (DR2 = 0.06, F(1,274) = 4.27,
p \ 0.01) after controlling for the effects of variables in the first step of the model.

Discussion and Conclusions

Bender (2008) has suggested that religious coping is based on religious beliefs and
activities and that it helps believers restrain emotional stress and subsequent physical
discomfort. Religious coping is defined as a way in which religious resources such as
prayer and trust in and recourse to God enhance ones coping mechanism (Bussing et al.
2007b).
The goal of the present study was to test the relationship between a group of Iranian
students Trust-in-God and their affective status and feelings of hope. In summary, we
found that the strength of the students Trust-in-God was negatively associated with their
scores on negative affect and positively associated with their scores on positive affect and
feelings of hope. The results of the study support previous findings from other cultures on
the positive relationships between Trust-in-God, hope, and positive affect (Bush et al.
1999; Bussing and Mundle 2009; Ciarrocchi et al. 2008; Lewis and Cruise 2006; Mickley
et al. 1992; Van Ness and Larson 2002). According to Feldman and Snyder (2005), hope is
a glimpse into the nature of the meaning of life, and spirituality has been seen as a path
directing one to find meaning in life (Bussing et al. 2007a, b). The theory of hope states
that despair refers to all barriers that prevent people from achieving their goals. Barriers
may include ones internal and external conditions, facts, characteristics or events

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 Table 4 Results of three hierarchical regression analyses regressing Trust-in-God on hope, positive affect and negative affect, separately, after controlling for age, gender,
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and education
Steps Variables B SE B b t DR2 p

Hope PA NA Hope PA NA Hope PA NA Hope PA NA Hope PA NA Hope PA NA

1 Age .40 .38 -.40 .14 .25 .32 .20 .11 -.09 2.84** 1.35 -1.28
Gender .29 1.43 -2.69 .41 .72 .92 -.04 .12 -.17 -.70 1.99* -2.93** .04 .03 .05 .05 .05 .01
Education .02 -.35 .81 .15 .26 .34 -.01 .09 .16 -.13 -1.31 2.38*
2 Trust-in-God .13 .44 -.16 .06 .10 .13 .14 .28 -.08 2.34* 4.66*** -1.24 .06 .10 .06 .01 .001 .01

Hope Adult Dispositional Hope Scale, PA PANAS positive affect, NA PANAS negative affect
* p \ 0.05; ** p \ 0.01; *** p \ 0.001
803

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(Uffelman 2005). Therefore, a persons affective states or emotions in response to

threatening events (e.g., disease, natural disasters, and failure) can be quite debilitating.
The ability to give meaning to a threatening life event, having trust in Gods will and
power, and also having trust in oneself can preserve a persons hope and emotional state.
Trust-in-God also makes a person less likely to see himself/herself as needing to rely
solely on material or social resources for support. If Trust-in-God is associated with a
better affective status and higher levels of hope, then we assume that the person who has
such trust should be more active than passive and feel more adequate in pursuing his/her
goals than those who lack it. Moreover, such a person would be expected to show better
problem-solving skills, more perseverance, and higher levels of contentment and patience
when facing problems that delay or even prevent the person from attaining goals. The
existing literature suggests that such qualities are commonly associated with enhanced
mental well-being.
To conclude, the results of the present study support earlier findings that Trust-in-God
could be related to ones positive mood and hope; however, such relationship could not be
causal because the variables could be all related to a third factor, or the relationship could
be mediated or moderated by other qualities that have not been identified in the previous
and present research.

Acknowledgments The authors greatly thank Dr. Colleen Donagher for her helpful comments on an
earlier version of the manuscript.

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