Religiosity of Students in the Israeli National‐Religious Comprehensive High School

Abstract

This study examined the religiosity of students studying in a representative sample of seventeen high schools, divided into two categories based on degree of comprehensiveness. Four factors, namely, openness versus selectivity in student intake, student oriented curriculum versus school oriented curriculum, flexible versus inflexible student placement, and social integration‐‐all yielded from a questionnaire specially compiled for this research and administered to the headmasters of the seventeen high schools in the sample‐‐served as the criteria of comprehensiveness. In addition 531 eleventh grade students in the seventeen schools responded to a questionnaire specially compiled to tap two significant areas of religiosity, namely, religious practices and religious principles. Analysis of the data indicates that the four factors of comprehensiveness are unidimensional and cumulative, thus forming a hierarchical model of comprehensiveness. Further analyses indicate that students in high schools typified by ...