IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rnd/arjevr/v5y2014i4id4503.html

Life Satisfaction and Religiosity among College Teachers

Author

Listed:
  • Yousaf Jamal
  • Sayyeda Taskeen Zahra

Abstract

The present study aimed to explore the relationship between life satisfaction and religiosity among college teachers. Life satisfaction refers to cognitive and affective assessments of life. Religiosity refers to behavior, emotions, and thoughts which are derivative from beliefs about the sacred, associated with a particular religious ritual. A sample of 100 males and females college teachers was selected in a crosssectional survey research design. Muslim Religiosity Personality Inventory (MRPI) by Krauss (2011) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) by Diener (1985) were used to measure the religiosity and life satisfaction respectively. Permissions to use the scales have already obtained from authors. Data were collected from a convenient sample of 100 college teachers from district Gujrat. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 20.0 version was used for statistical analyses. Findings of Pearson Product Moment Correlations revealed that life satisfaction is positively associated with religious rituals and maumalats at ( p

Suggested Citation

  • Yousaf Jamal & Sayyeda Taskeen Zahra, 2014. "Life Satisfaction and Religiosity among College Teachers," Journal of Education and Vocational Research, AMH International, vol. 5(4), pages 186-190, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rnd:arjevr:v:5:y:2014:i:4:id:4503
    DOI: 10.22610/jevr.v5i4.167
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://amhinternational.com/jevr/article/view/4503-life-satisfaction-and-religiosity-among-college-teachers
    File Function: Abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://amhinternational.com/jevr/article/download/4503-life-satisfaction-and-religiosity-among-college-teachers/71afe61a-3aad-443c-9739-e90a7067ef70
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22610/jevr.v5i4.167?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rnd:arjevr:v:5:y:2014:i:4:id:4503. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AMH International (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://amhinternational.com/jevr .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.