Spiritual support and its relationship to motivation to volunteer among the popular crowd volunteers

Abstract

Spiritual support is one of the important variables in positive psychology that serves as a response device that helps to deal with psychological stress, which in turn is reflected in mental health, as spiritual support plays  an important role in promoting and improving mental health and increasing the individual's self-confidence and ability to adapt through religious and spiritual support, as it helps to overcome the fears, difficulties and pressures faced by the individual, and helps to get a deep view of events Positive and negative in life, and provides a person with finding meaning for life through relationships that people often resort to for help in times of crisis or anxiety.

 The spiritual support of the Popular Mobilization volunteers is enhanced through the motivation to volunteer, as people who possess high spiritual abilities have the motivation to volunteer in order to cope with difficult situations, and volunteering is defined as "the effort made by any person free of charge to his community motivated to contribute to bearing the responsibility of the institution that works to provide social welfare.

The importance of this study comes because its subject is the motivation for volunteering, which does not know a time or place throughout human history motivated by alleviating the tragedies to which people are exposed, and Iraq has witnessed the largest volunteer movement Iraq has witnessed in modern history after the fatwa of the Supreme Reference Mr. Ali Al-Sistani, which recorded nearly three million volunteers of different ages between gray and young, after the entry of criminal gangs to several provinces in the country, which prompted thousands to volunteer to train to carry weapons and support government forces in its battles against militants.