Examining mediator and indirect effects of practice of religion in religious attitude on environmental attitude among college students

2021 IJRSE – Volume 10 Issue 2
Special Luminary Issue on Education and Religion

Available Online: 4 December 2020

Author/s:

Simeon, Andylyn M.*
De La Salle University, Philippines (andylyn.simeon@dlsu.edu.ph)

Abstract:

This study examines the mediator and indirect effect of the Practice of Religion in Religious Attitude on Environmental Attitude. The participants were 147 college students, 78 were females (M_age= 19.64, SD= 1.01) and 69 were males (M_age= 20.06, SD= 1.55). The FSAR Scale (Baring et al., 2018) and the EAI-24 (Milfont & Duckit, 2010) were used to measure Religious Attitude and Environmental Attitude, respectively. A single-item self-report was used to measure the Practice of Religion. Baron and Kenny’s (1986) procedure on mediation analysis was followed and Sobel Test and bootstrapping procedures were used to test the significance of the indirect effect. Results indicated that Religious Attitude predicts Environmental Attitude significantly (path c=.293, p<.001), and the same significant prediction was observed when the Practice of Religion was regressed on Religious Attitude (path a = .440, p < .001). However, a significant prediction between Religious Attitude and Environmental Attitude (path c’ =.213, p=.007) was observed when both the Religious Attitude and Practice of Religion regressed on Environmental Attitude. Thus, only a partial mediation effect was observed. The Sobel Test was significant (t = 1.961, p=.0498) and the bias-corrected bootstrap (n=1000) procedure also found the indirect effect significant with a 95% CI range of 0.0151 to 0.0975. Therefore, the Practice of Religion has a significant partial mediation effect in the variation of Religious Attitude on Environmental Attitude. The results also suggest the presence of multiple mediating variables between Religious Attitude and Environmental Attitude. Further study using other possible mediator variables is proposed.

Keywords: college students; religious attitude; environmental attitude; practice of religion; mediation analysis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2020.5724

Cite this article:
Simeon, A. M. (2021). Examining mediator and indirect effects of practice of religion in religious attitude on environmental attitude among college students. International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 10(2), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2020.5724

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