Commitment to the Teachings of Islam, Religious Orientation, and Psychological Capital across female and male Students: A Comparative Study

The purpose of the current study was to compare the issues of being committed to the teachings of Islam, religious orientation, and psychological capital across male and female students. The participants of the study included male and female students at Sama institute- Islamic Azad University, Ardebil Branch in academic year of 2018-2019. Then, the sample of fifty male and female students was equally selected through two-stage cluster sampling. The selected participants answered such questionnaires as commitment to the teachings of Islam, Luthans’ psychological capital, and Allport’s religious orientation. Their internal consistency was estimated through Cronbach's alpha. Chi-square was used to examine the relationship between commitment to the teachings of Islam and gender. Furthermore, considering “doing good and forbidding evil”, the researchers found that there was a high correlation between gender and factors such as control of the look, appropriate cover, swear, avoidance of exploring others, bad guessing, avoidance of bad speech, good work, respect for parents. It is worth mentioning that with the exception of factors such as avoidance of exploring in others, bad guessing, and good work, females outperformed the male students. T-test demonstrated that there was a significant difference in each of the four components of psychological capital and internal-external religious orientations across genders. Comparing means showed that in all cases females enjoyed high value and outperformed the males regarding the mentioned parameters. There was not any significant difference in the total scores of commitment to the teachings of Islam across gender.