This study, under the assumption that teenagers' the religious orientations and the maturity faith affect psychological Well-Being, delinquency and pro-social behavior, set up the following study themes to confirm it.
Study theme 1. What is the relat...
This study, under the assumption that teenagers' the religious orientations and the maturity faith affect psychological Well-Being, delinquency and pro-social behavior, set up the following study themes to confirm it.
Study theme 1. What is the relation between teenager's type of religion and it's maturity?
Study theme 2. What is the relation between maturity of religion and psychological Well-Being
Study theme 3. What is the relation between teenager's religion types, delinquency and pro-social behaviors?
Study theme 4. What is the relation between religious maturity, delinquency and maturity of religion?
Study theme 5. What intermediary variable role does teenager's religious maturity play in the relation between the Religious Orientations, delinquency and pro-social behaviors?
In order to find out, I temporarily gathered 187 teenagers who attend church in Seoul, Gyeonggi-do Bundang and Gyeonggi-do Yongin. I carried out simple correlation, Multiple linear regression and rank regression between the variables and based on the results, it can be summarized as the following.
First, in order to find out the relation between the religious orientations and the maturity faith, I carried out simple correlation and Multiple linear regression. As a result, the religious orientations illustrated 74 percent of the maturity of religious belief. It came to a conclusion that there are much passive correlation between religious maturity and for intrinsic orientation, orthodoxㆍconservative piety, exclusive ㆍfaith-first piety, and rationalㆍexoteric piety and for extrinsic orientation, ethicalㆍ moral piety.
Second, as a result of carrying out correlation to find out the relation between religious maturity and psychological Well-Being, there seemed to be no correlation between positive emotion and positive relationship, and negative emotion. Therefore, I found that religion increases positiveness of teenagers and these positive emotions elevate pro-social attitudes.
Third, in consequence to carrying out simple correlation in order to find out the relation between teenagers' religious maturity, delinquency and negative relationship, the maturity faith had a negative relationship with delinquency and a positive relationship with pro-social attitudes. However, there were much higher correlation coefficients with pro-social behaviors then with delinquency. This showed that religion have more positive effect on increasing pro-social attitudes, which is more desirable, than with delinquency.
Forth, to find our teenage delinquency and pro-social behaviors according to the type of religion through Multiple linear regression correlation and Multiple linear regression, the religious orientations explained 8.9 percent of wrongdoing and 26 percent of pro-social minds. Additionally, misdeed had a similar positive relationship with wish-fulfillmentㆍdesire piety which is a extrinsic orientation. In contrast, pro-social attitudes showed a similar positive relationship with orthodoxㆍconservative piety, exclusiveㆍfaith-first piety, and rationalㆍexoteric piety and negative relationship with timeserving piety.
Last, delinquency. In order to examine closely how religious maturity and the religious orientations affect social behaviors, the difference between delinquency and pro-social attitudes according to how much mature one is in religion could be explained by the difference between delinquency and pro-social attitudes according to the religious orientations, which means the matureness of religion can be the intermediary variables of delinquency and pro-social acts in the Religious Orientations.
In a nutshell, it could be concluded that the more mature the religion, the less delinquency and the higher the pro-social attitudes. the Religious Orientations was a variable which affects the religious maturity. Among the religious orientations, the intrinsicness such causes as orthodoxㆍconservative piety, exclusive ㆍfaith-first piety, and rationalㆍexoteric piety and extrinsic factors of moralㆍethical piety determined the maturity of faith. In opposition, timeserving piety, undulating ㆍcraving piety had no meaningful effect.