The
Effect of Religious Involvement on Work Centrality
M. Hafsi |
In
the present paper, we attempt to explore the relationship between
the subject's religious involvement degree and his Work Centrality
(WC) or the importance of working in his whole life. A total of 345
Muslims, living in Japan, were surveyed. To measure the religious
involvement, we constructed three different scales that were combined
at the individual level to obtain a Religious Index (RINDEX). Based
on the RINDEX score, the subjects were divided into HRINDEX (High
RINDEX; high involvement with Islamic Religion), MRINDEX (Moderate
RINDEX; moderate involvement with Islamic Religion) and LRINDEX (Low
RINDEX; low involvement with Islamic Religion) subsamples. To measure
the work centrality level we also used two differents measures that
were combined to have a general index that is supposed to indicate
the subject's degree of importance attached to work. As hypothesized,
the results indicated that the HRINDEX subjects were more likely
to have a higher WC than do both the MRINDEX and LRINDEX subjects.
The results of this study support the general hypothesis that links
the subject's belief or value to his/her attitudes.
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