The Religiosity and Self-Awareness Effect on Chinese Christian Worker Professionalism in Indonesia

Abstract

The Chinese-Christian ethnicity is a group that is called a double minority in the Indonesian community because the Chinese are a minority ethnic grouping, and Christians are also a minority religion in the country. However, this group gave birth to the most successful conglomerates, businessmen and workers. More than 50% of the top 10 richest people in Indonesia emanate from this group. This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of religiosity and self-awareness on the professionalism of Indonesian workers of Chinese ethnicity and Christian orientation. A quantitative methodology was used with correlation and multiple linear regression analyses being undertaken. The population in the study were Indonesian workers of Chinese ethnicity and adherents of the Christian religion who work as doctors, bankers, accountants, engineers, lawyers, business owners, and educators and others in Surabaya, Indonesia. Respondents were selected by means of a purposive random sampling approach. The instruments used in this research included the Religiosity scale (CRS) developed by Huber, the Self-awareness scale, and the Professionalism scale developed by Hall. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between religiosity and self-awareness with professionalism in Indonesian workers of Chinese ethnicity and Christian orientation in Surabaya, Indonesia. This study proves that the professionalism of Chinese-Christian workers is strongly influenced by their religiosity and self-awareness. The conclusion is that strong religious beliefs and self-awareness will improve the quality of one’s work, and it also increase levels of professionalism. The implication of this study is if someone wants to increase their professionality, they must increase their religiosity and self-awareness.