Religious orientation and locus of control among madrassa and University Students

Abstract

Present study explored the relationship between Religious orientation and Locus of control among Madrassa and University students. Urdu translations of 14 items Age Universal Religious Orientation Scale (Gorsuch & Mc-Pherson, 1989) and 65 items Belief in Personal Control Scale (Berrenberg, 1987) was used to measure religious orientation and the Locus of control respectively. Scales were administered on a sample of 120 students (60 men and 60 women) whose age range was from 18-28 years, belonging to four private Madrassas and four government sector Universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The study found support for the hypotheses that there is positive relationship between intrinsic religious orientation and God mediated locus of control (p<.05), extrinsic religious orientation (extrinsic social & extrinsic personal) and external locus of control (p<.01, p<.05, respectively) in Madrassa students, while positive relationship was found between extrinsic religious orientation (extrinsic personal and extrinsic social) and external locus of control in university students (p<.01, p<.05, respectively). The present study gives illustration of the students of both institutes on the religiosity and personality constructs and relationship found between some subscales of Religious orientation and Locus of control.