Relationship between Agression and Religiosity among Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

The current study aimed to explore the relationship between religiosity and aggression in school students. Human aggression is any behavior directed toward another individual that is carried out with the proximate (immediate) intent to cause harm. Religiosity may be referred to as the state of one's belief in God, characterized by his piety and religious passion. A convenient sample of 100 higher secondary school students was selected by convenient sampling technique in a cross-sectional survey research design. Muslim Religious Personality Inventory (MRPI) by Steven Eric Krauss (2011) and Aggression Scale by Ana Kozina (2013) were used to assess the Muslim religiosity and aggression respectively. Permission to use the scales has already been obtained from authors of the scales. Descriptive and inferential analyses were made by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0. Findings of Pearson Product Moment correlations revealed that there is statistically significant negative relationship between religiosity and aggression (p< .05) in higher secondary school students. In addition, Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis revealed that religiosity predicts 16% variance on aggression in higher secondary school students. These findings have implication that religiosity plays an important role in teaching moral values and teaching a person how to act responsibly and care for others.