Revised Schema of Self and Its Actualization in Health Sciences through Language Achievement

Objective: The 11 taxa of self in Khodadady’s [1] Quranic Orientation Scale (QOS) were revised and expanded. Those represented by the seven factors underlying the QOS were then correlated with a schema-based cloze multiple-choice item English language achievement test (S-Test) to find out whether the taxa in general and those involving health in particular associate with the achievement. Method: The Arabic Quran (Q) was parsed into its constituting 114 chapters, 6348 verses, and 98037 words to determine what taxa of self the 57 verses upon which the items of the QOS was developed contributed to. The taxa matching the factors underlying the QOS were then scrutinized in terms of their relationship with health and correlated with the scores of 1123 grade four senior high school students on the S-Test. Results: The Q assigns the schema of self actualized by Homo sapiens (HS) to 13 taxa: Allah, psychical monotheist, observing monotheist, monotheist (MT), fake monotheist (FMT), doubtful monotheist, polytheist, and self-theist, wise theist, emotional theist, cognitive theist, instinctual theist, and words. Only the two taxa of MT and FM dealing with health associated significantly with the S-Test. Conclusion: The highest taxon of self represents the One God named Allah. He is the only true self who enjoys complete health as defined by World Health Organization [2]. Among the selves actualized by HS only MTs and FMTs enjoy relative health because they do not consume alcohol to suffer from alcoholism and its related illnesses. Although they both learn the English language in the process, FMTs achieve higher than MTs in the language.