Religious Orientation and Locus of Control Among Madrassa and University Students

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to study Relationship between Religious orientation and Locus of control among Madrassa students and University students. Scales lIsed for the purpose was Urdu translated Age Universal Religious Orientation Scale Revised by Ghous (2003) to measure religious orientation and Urdu translated Belief in Personal Control Scale by Batool (2003) to measure the Locus of control among Madrassa students and University students. These tests were administered to a sample of j 20 students (60=men and 60=women). Age range of the sample ]lias ./i"0111 18-28 years, belonging to fO llr private Madrassas and four government sector Unil'ersities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The study fo und support for the hypothesis that there is positive relationship bel1-veen extrinsic religious orientation (extrinsic personal and extrinsic social) and external locus of control among the Madrassa students while there is no relationship on these subscales on the sample of university students. There is significant relationship beMeen the extrinsic personal religious orientation and internal locus of control on the sample of Madrassa. Similarly significant positive relationship found beMeen the intrinsic religious orientation and God mediated locus of control among Madrassa students. Non significant differences were found among Madrassa and University students on the subscales of Religious orientation and Loclls of control except University students showed significant d(fference on intrinsic religious orientation. Finally, results found non significant gender differences 011 subscales of ReligioLls orientation and Locus of control except the significant difference appeared within Madrassa women and men students on intrinsic Religious orientation scale.