Self-Religiosity, Father’s Attitude and Religious Education in the Moral Behaviour of Adolescents
Author(s)
Shah, Ashiq Ali
Abstract
The study examines the role of self-religiosity, father’s religious attitude in the moral behavior of youth from religious and nonreligious schools. The subjects for the main study were 100 male Malay youth between 15 and 17 years of age drawn equally from religious and nonreligious schools. Multiple regression analysis of self-religiosity, father’s religious attitude, and type of school to the moral behavior showed a significant effect for regression and a significant beta coefficient for self-religiosity indicating that self-religiosity was the only predictor of moral behavior of youth. Results also revealed significant correlations between self-religiosity and moral behavior, and self-religiosity and father’s religious attitude. Results indicated significant differences suggesting that youth from a religious school exhibited more moral behavior and they and their fathers were more religious as compared to the youth from nonreligious school. The results suggest a path analytical relationship among the variables indicating that religiosity and religious education played a positive role in the moral behavior of youth.
