Religious involvement and the social competence and adjustment of Indonesian Muslim adolescents.
This study assessed the relation between religious involvement and multiple indices of competence in 183 eighth- and ninth-grade Indonesian Muslim adolescents (M = 13.3 years). The authors assessed spirituality and religiosity using both parent and adolescent reports, and social competence and adjustment using multiple measures and data sources. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that parent and adolescent reports of religiosity and spirituality yielded a single religious involvement latent variable that was related to peer group status, academic achievement, emotional regulation, prosocial behavior, antisocial/problem behavior, internalizing behavior, and self-esteem. The consistency of relations between religious involvement and competence may be in part attributable to the collectivist context of religion in West Java, Indonesia, within which people exhibit strong beliefs in Islam and religion permeates daily life.
French
Doran C
DC
Department of Psychology, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, USA. dfrench@iwu.edu
Eisenberg
Nancy
N
Vaughan
Julie
J
Purwono
Urip
U
Suryanti
Telie A
TA
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D010379:Peer Group; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012919:Social Behavior; D012963:Sociometric Techniques; D029181:Spirituality; D013694:Temperament