Association between Religiosity, Self-Esteem and Job Performance among School Teachers

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between religiosity a with self-esteem and job performance. The independent sample t.test was applied to explore the gender difference among variables. A cross-sectional study was conducted in which researcher used self-report questionnaires to access how religiosity level has influence the Self-esteem and Work performance among school teachers. In present study researcher used Rosenberg Self-esteem scale (Rosenberg, M., 1979) Muslim Religiosity scale (El-Menouar, 2014) and Job performance scale (Limon et al., 2020). Present study was conducted 450 sample consisted 204 Males and 246 Female teachers. Data was analyzed using correlation and independent sample t-test. Present study found negative correlation between religiosity and self-esteem and had found positive relationship with job performance. Researcher found insignificant difference in self-esteem and had significant difference in Religiosity and job performance. Results shows that private teachers were higher in religiosity level then public teachers, while public teachers were higher in self- esteem and job performance. Self-reported scales were used in present study may be cause of self-biasness. A cross sectional study was conducted for future researchers’ qualitative long term study should conduct for in-depth and quality of data for long term results