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Religious Intolerance and Psychological Adjustment among University Students.
(University of Management and Technology, 2018) Amna Farooq; Rabia Irfan; Abir Abid
Current study was conducted to explore relationship between religious intolerance and psychological adjustment of university students. Data was collected from 285 (141 men and 144 women) university students of University of Management and Technology through convenient sampling method. Their age ranged from 18 to 24 years (M = 9.41, SD = 14.38). two psychological inventories were used to collect data from participant; Adult Personality Assessment Questionnaire PAQ (Naz & kasuar, 2011) and Religious Intolerance Scale RIS (Shujja & Mehdi, 2016). Pearson product moment correlation, t-test and Linear Regression Analysis were used to assess hypothesis. Results revealed that religious intolerance was significantly correlated with dependency and emotional unresponsive. Whereas, hostility was found to have significant correlation with dependency, negative self-esteem, negative self-adequacy, emotional unresponsive, emotional instability and negative world view. They also showed inter- correlation among study variables. Result showed there is no gender difference between religious intolerance, but significant gender differences were found in Emotional Unresponsive, Emotional Instability and Negative world view. Overall model accounted for 1% variance.