Abstract
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.