Impact of Conservatism on Religiosity among Graduate Students of Muzaffarpur District of Bihar

Author(s): Anisha Khatoon and Dr. Vikash Kumar

Abstract:

Religiosity is a quality of being very or too religions. It’s refers to an individual’s degree of religions commitment encompassing attitudes behaviour and value related to their faith and Conservatism refers to the tendency to preserve or keep intact and unchanged existing institution and values. The present study tries to focus on the impact of conservatism on religiosity among 240 graduate students of Muzaffarpur district. Selected samples were administered on the Religiosity scale developed by Dr. L. I. Bhushan and conservatism scale developed by Dr. Hardeo Ojha were used for assessing the religiosity and conservatism of the graduate students of Muzaffarpur district. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the obtained data using statistical tools such as, correlation, means, SD, t-ratio. The analysis of data concluded that a positive and significant correction has been obtained between the scores of religiosity and conservatism of the graduate students, which indicates that both variables have significant positive relation. Again, the comparison between high and low conservative groups by using t-test has shown there is a significant difference between high conservative group and low conservative group in term of religiosity. It indicates that conservatism plays a significant role to determining the religiosity.

keywords:
Religiosity, conservatism and graduate students.

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