This study examines the correlation among a number of personal and environmental resources that can reduce depression.
These are: religiosity, happiness, social support, and self‐control. The participants in the study consisted of 219 Arab students
from teacher training colleges in the Triangle region in central Israel. The findings indicate that all the resources that were
examined contribute to reducing the level of depression; in other words, significant negative correlations were found
between the level of religiosity, happiness, social support and self‐control on the one hand, and the level of depression on the
other hand. These findings are consistent with those of other studies conducted elsewhere in the world on different
populations (Christian and Jewish, as well as Muslim). The present study and its findings are, however, the first to address the
understanding of depression among the populace in question. The findings were discussed in accordance with a number of
different theories.