Musa, Marliana
(2015)
The influence of religiosity on high risk behaviour among trainess of National Service Training Center (PLKN) in Pasir Mas, Kelantan and Besut, Terengganu.
Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Abstract
The adolescent period is considered to be difficult and challenging for both
children and their parents’ particularly in biological, emotional, cognitive and
psychological aspects. Many researchers interested in the topic of adolescent with high risk
behavior due to its potential negative consequences in adult life and religiosity appeared to
be one of the protective factors. Adolescents who were more religiouswere found to be
protected from involved with high risk behavior based on many previous studies.
Objectives: This study wasaimed to determine the prevalence of high risk behavior and the
level of religious personality among trainees of national service training center (PLKN) in
Pasir Mas, Kelantan and Besut, Terengganu as well as to determine the association
between high risk behavior and level of religiosity.
Methodology: A cross sectional study, using a convenience sampling method conducted
from October 2014 to February 2015 involving 347 trainees.A self-rated questionnaire
regarding personal information, high risk behavior and sexual behavior was distributed
together with Muslim Pesonality Scale (Maruzairi H. et al 2015, unpublished), a validated
Malay version Religious Personality Scale of Muslim Religious-Personality Inventory
(MRPI). Data analysis was done using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS)
version 22 by usinglogistic regression, an independent t test and multiple linear regression
(MLR) to see the association between high risk behavior, socio-demographic and level of
religiosity.
Results: Among the study population, 64.8% were male and 35.2% were female. The
majority of them staying with their parents and had income less than RM1000. The
prevalence of high risk behavior was 43.8% for smoking, alcohol use was 7.5% and illicit
drug use was 8.4%. Prevalence of pornography, masturbation and sexual intercourse
experienced were 54.8%, 49.0% and 15.0% respectively. Logistic regression analyses
showed that factor of the trainees being taken care by other than their parents were
associated with alcohol use, illicit drug use and had sexual intercourse experience
premaritally. Gender factor was associated with pornography viewing behavior. 24.2% of
the trainees had high religious personality, 62.0% had moderate and 13.8% had low
religious personality. In MLR, trainees who had a pornography experience (p=0.033) and
sexual intercourse experience (p=0.001) were significantly associated with the lower level
of religiosity.
Conclusion: Religiosity is known to be a protective factor towards high risk behavior
especially sexual related behavior. This study support that adolescent involve with
pornography viewing and premarital sexual intercourse had lower level of religiosity
compared to adolescent without pornography viewing and premarital sexual intercourse.
However, since the challenges during an adolescent developmental period is high,
religiosity should be strengthened continually with other factors such as parental guide,
moral value and knowledge of high risk behaviors.
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