Religiosity, Nationalism and Social Responsibility Among University Students

Abstract

Nationalism and religion both offer people a source of connotation and encourage people to extraordinary acts of bravery. Whereas, Social Responsibility is considered as the main quality of a leader among students of university. The main aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between religiosity, nationalism, and predictor of social responsibility among university students. Cross-sectional research design in which convenient, and snowball sampling technique was used. In total 200 university students were approached from different universities of Faisalabad. The results of Pearson ’s-product moment correlation demonstrated that there is a significant relationship between religiosity, nationalism, and social responsibility among university students. Further, linear regression analysis showed that nationalism, religiosity, student age, and socioeconomic status predict social responsibility. Independent T-test analysis suggests there was a gender difference in which mostly male students are higher on all the variables of study. Further, parental education also play an important role in educating the students about their social responsibility in the light of religion and their culture. So, we concluded that parental education, socio-economic status, nationalism, religiosity, and age of students had a significant impact on learning and fulfilling the social responsibilities toward their culture and nation.