Religiosity of Students in the Israeli National-Religious Comprehensive High School
Titel:
Religiosity of Students in the Israeli National-Religious Comprehensive High School
Auteur:
Katz, Yaacov J. Schmida, Mirjam
Verschenen in:
British journal of religious education
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (1991) nr. 2 pagina's 109-113
Jaar:
1991
Inhoud:
This study examined the religiosity of students studying in a representative sample of seventeen high schools, divided into two categories based on degree of comprehensiveness. Four factors, namely, openness versus selectivity in student intake, student oriented curriculum versus school oriented curriculum, flexible versus inflexible student placement, and social integration--all yielded from a questionnaire specially compiled for this research and administered to the headmasters of the seventeen high schools in the sample--served as the criteria of comprehensiveness. In addition 531 eleventh grade students in the seventeen schools responded to a questionnaire specially compiled to tap two significant areas of religiosity, namely, religious practices and religious principles. Analysis of the data indicates that the four factors of comprehensiveness are unidimensional and cumulative, thus forming a hierarchical model of comprehensiveness. Further analyses indicate that students in high schools typified by a higher level of comprehensiveness scored significantly higher on the religious practices factor than their peers in the high schools characterized by a lower level of comprehensiveness. On the other hand students in the less comprehensive high schools scored higher on religious principles than those in the more comprehensive schools. These results indicate that differential levels of comprehensiveness--high versus low--are significantly related to differential aspects--preceptual versus philosophical--of students' religiosity.
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