Religious coping has been found to help people in stressful situations. It takes place within a specific cultural religious/context yet its measurement has not always been adapted to the context of the study population. The aim of this study was to develop an instrument to measure religious coping among religious Jews—a population that has received little research attention—and assess the associations of religious coping strategies with emotional adjustment. The study was based on quantitative data gathered from 332 religious Jewish women, (...) who were coping with stress. The findings support the utilization of three religious coping strategies by the participants: Seeking the Support of God, Seeking the Support of Rabbis, and Seeking the Support of the Community, which were found to be directly correlated with better emotional adjustment. This instrument can assist in evaluating and understanding religious coping with stressful situations and in culturally adapting psychosocial interventions to promote emotional adjustment. (shrink)

While major religions espouse moral values encouraging prosocial behavior, the empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of religious influence on such behavior, as proposed by the religious pro-sociality hypothesis, remains inconclusive. To explore this further, we conducted two studies to test this hypothesis in Pakistan, a Muslim-majority Asian nation, focusing on whistleblowing as a prosocial behavior. The first study gathered cross-sectional data from 323 undergraduate business students in Karachi, Pakistan, utilizing hypothetical scenarios of academic cheating and bank embezzlement. Participants completed a (...) scenario-based questionnaire assessing intrinsic religiosity, personality traits, and whistleblowing intentions. Measures were adapted for the Muslim context, with intrinsic religiosity assessed using the Age Universal Intrinsic-Extrinsic (AUIE) scale and personality traits measured using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) scale. Regression analysis of these data revealed that while intrinsic religiosity significantly predicted whistleblowing intentions in the academic cheating scenario, it did not do so in the bank embezzlement scenario. Furthermore, multiple regression modeling to test moderating effects of personality traits did not yield significant results for either scenario. The second study employed an experimental design to observe actual whistleblowing behavior among 85 undergraduate business students in Karachi, Pakistan. Participants were randomly assigned to either a religious or a neutral condition, aiming to assess the impact of intrinsic religiosity on whistleblowing behavior. The experiment used a cover story which involved a confederate cheating during an intelligence quotient (IQ) test. The purpose of this design was to examine whether the participant, acting as the sole witness to wrongdoing, would intervene and blow the whistle. Data analysis using logistic regression indicated that intrinsic religiosity did not significantly predict whistleblowing behavior across both the experimental and control conditions. These contrasting results highlight the complexity of whistleblowing, emphasizing its subjective nature and the influence of social dynamics on behavior. (shrink)

Bu çalışma, Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi öğrencilerinin dinî eğilimlerini belirlemeye odaklanmaktadır. Çalışmada öğrencilerin dinî eğilimleri tasavvufî, modernist, siyasal ve selefi din anlayışları olmak üzere dört kategori açısından ele alındı. Nicel bir yöntemle yürütülmüş olan bu çalışmada betimsel tarama modeli ve karşılaştırmalı ilişkisel model kullanılmıştır. Bu çerçevede öğrencilerin ilgi duydukları İslâm anlayışları; cinsiyet, aile gelir düzeyi, mezun olunan lise türü, sınıf, İlahiyat Fakültelerinde eğitimin karma ya da tek cinsiyete dayalı mı olması gerektiği ve öğrencilerin İlahiyat Fakültelerindeki ders gruplarından hangilerine (...) yakınlık duydukları gibi farklı değişkenler üzerinden ölçülmeye çalışıldı. Araştırmanın evreni 2020-2021 eğitim - öğretim yılında İlahiyat Fakültesinde okuyan Hazırlık Sınıfı dışındaki 979 öğrenciyi kapsamaktadır. Örneklem grubu ise farklı sınıflardan ankete cevap veren 441 öğrenciden oluşmaktadır. Araştırmada bilgi toplama kaynağı olarak, kişisel bilgi formu ve 15 maddelik “İslâm Anlayışı Ölçeği” kullanıldı. Araştırma sonucunda Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi öğrencilerinin İslâm anlayışlarında tasavvufî İslam anlayışı yönünde bir eğilimin öne çıktığı görüldü. (shrink)