The Impact of Islamic Religious Practices on Job Anxiety and Quality of Life of Government Muslim Teachers

Abstract

The present study examined the impact of regularly performed religious practices on job anxiety and quality of life of government Muslims teachers. For this purpose a total of 200 subjects belonging to Muslim religious community of age ranging from 40 to above were taken for the study. The subjects were consisted of two groups of subjects, who reported to perform the religious prayers (Salah) five times a day (100Ss) and the subjects who were not regular at such religious prayers (100Ss). Job anxiety Scale constructed by A.K. Srivastava and PGI quality of life inventory, constructed by Moudgil, S.K. Verma and Kaur was used for the purpose of measuring variables under study. The Mean, S.D. and t-test was used for the purposed of statistically analyse the obtained data. The results indicate that Muslim government teachers who perform regular five time prayer (Salah) daily live the greater qualities of life and they have low anxiety level but Muslim government teacher who do not perform prayer five time regularly face the more anxiety and they have the low qualities of life.