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Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths

The present study examined the influence of religious personality, as the manifestation of one’s religious belief, on the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour among the different ethnic and gender backgrounds. Religious personality comprises of three major factors: pro-social behaviour, ritual behaviour...

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Main Authors: Idris, Fazilah, Mastor, Khairul Anwar, Hamzah, Azimi, Tamam, Ezhar, Wong, Su Luan, Suradi, Nur Riza
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Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2008
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spelling my.upm.eprints.165092015-09-15T06:07:56Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16509/ Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths Idris, Fazilah Mastor, Khairul Anwar Hamzah, Azimi Tamam, Ezhar Wong, Su Luan Suradi, Nur Riza The present study examined the influence of religious personality, as the manifestation of one’s religious belief, on the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour among the different ethnic and gender backgrounds. Religious personality comprises of three major factors: pro-social behaviour, ritual behaviour and anti-social behaviour. It was hypothesized that religious personality of the youth might influence inter-ethnic perceived behaviour by enhancing mutual understanding and respect, tolerance, and appropriate behaviour to live in peace and harmony. Respondents were 563 high school students, who were randomly selected from various schools in Selangor. The Inter-ethnic Tolerance Questionnaire (IETQ) was used as a self-designed questionnaire to measure the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour and the Universal Religious Personality Inventory (URPI) (Krauss et al., 2006). The findings gathered in the present study indicated that Indian, Malay and Chinese students scored the highest levels of the pro-social behaviour, ritual behaviour and anti-social behaviour, respectively. Comparing the genders among all races, female students were found to score higher than the male students in the pro-social behaviour, but scored lower in the anti-social behaviour. The multiple regression analysis indicated that the pro-social factor was found to be a significant positive predictor of the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour. Universiti Putra Malaysia Press 2008-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16509/1/05%20Page%20141-157.pdf Idris, Fazilah and Mastor, Khairul Anwar and Hamzah, Azimi and Tamam, Ezhar and Wong, Su Luan and Suradi, Nur Riza (2008) Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 16 (2). pp. 141-157. ISSN 0128-7702; ESSN: 2231-8534 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2016%20%282%29%20Sep.%202008/07%20Page%20173-186.pdf
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description The present study examined the influence of religious personality, as the manifestation of one’s religious belief, on the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour among the different ethnic and gender backgrounds. Religious personality comprises of three major factors: pro-social behaviour, ritual behaviour and anti-social behaviour. It was hypothesized that religious personality of the youth might influence inter-ethnic perceived behaviour by enhancing mutual understanding and respect, tolerance, and appropriate behaviour to live in peace and harmony. Respondents were 563 high school students, who were randomly selected from various schools in Selangor. The Inter-ethnic Tolerance Questionnaire (IETQ) was used as a self-designed questionnaire to measure the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour and the Universal Religious Personality Inventory (URPI) (Krauss et al., 2006). The findings gathered in the present study indicated that Indian, Malay and Chinese students scored the highest levels of the pro-social behaviour, ritual behaviour and anti-social behaviour, respectively. Comparing the genders among all races, female students were found to score higher than the male students in the pro-social behaviour, but scored lower in the anti-social behaviour. The multiple regression analysis indicated that the pro-social factor was found to be a significant positive predictor of the inter-ethnic perceived behaviour.
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author Idris, Fazilah
Mastor, Khairul Anwar
Hamzah, Azimi
Tamam, Ezhar
Wong, Su Luan
Suradi, Nur Riza
spellingShingle Idris, Fazilah
Mastor, Khairul Anwar
Hamzah, Azimi
Tamam, Ezhar
Wong, Su Luan
Suradi, Nur Riza
Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
author_facet Idris, Fazilah
Mastor, Khairul Anwar
Hamzah, Azimi
Tamam, Ezhar
Wong, Su Luan
Suradi, Nur Riza
author_sort Idris, Fazilah
title Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
title_short Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
title_full Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
title_fullStr Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
title_full_unstemmed Religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
title_sort religious personality and gender differences in the perceived behaviour towards inter-ethnic everyday life among youths
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
publishDate 2008
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16509/1/05%20Page%20141-157.pdf
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