A Study of Religiosity and Psychological Well-Being

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between religiosity and psychological well-being of college going students. Earlier researches have revealed that personal devotion, participation in religious activities, and religious salience are positively associated with different aspects of psychological well- being. A sample of 60 male and 60 Female of age range of 19 to 25 years participated in the study. These were skewed with respect to nowadays interest in religion and education level. Here are all kinds of religion attendance, frequency of prayer, obligatory prayers, religious service, and most vital is importance of religious were selected as independent variables as well as measures of religiosity while psychological wellbeing were selected as dependent. On psychological well-being there is no gender differences and in religiosity gender was significantly associated with all kinds of religious activities. Males are more religious than female and a strong positive relationship was revealed between religiosity and psychological well-being.

Religiosity, Life satisfaction, psychological wellbeing

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