Religious Orientation, Hope and Death anxiety Among Madrassa and University Students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to explore the religious orientation, hope, and death anxiety among students of two different educational systems, the madrassa and the university. The convenient sampling with correlational research design was utilized to collect data (N = 300) whose ages range from 18 to 24, participated. Urdu translation of Religious Orientation Scale (khan at el., 2016), Death Anxiety scale (Ghayas, 2016) and Adult hope scale (Siddique & Hanif, 2021) were used for analyze the relationship among variables. The hypothesis of the study was that, there will have significant relationship among madrassa students.  The correlation analysis showed that, intrinsic religious orientation negatively correlates with death anxiety (r = -.24*), but showed no significant association with hope (r = -.06), while extrinsic religiosity is positively associated with hope (r =.21**) and death anxiety (r =.61*) among university students. Further correlational results indicated that Madrasa students, also have a stronger negative association with intrinsic religious death anxiety (r = -.32*) but positively associated with hope (r =.21**).  Further another hypothesis was that madrassa students mean will have higher on intrinsic religious orientation as compare to madrassa students.  But comparative analysis find out that university students were have higher intrinsic religious orientation (M=15.7) as compare to madrassa students (M=11.85). The finding will be helpful for counselors, psychologist and other educational authorities to develop strong positive religious orientation and hope to manage death anxiety.