Development and validation of religiosity and practice in education by using confirmatory factor analysis
Keywords:
University Student, Leadership, ReligiosityAbstract
There is an imbalance of religiosity when developing leadership among university students. This research examined the effect of religiosity on the trend of leadership among students. The study used stratified random sampling to select 292 students. The sample age ranged between 19-25 years. Three instruments were used Centrality of Religiosity Scale. The data analysis involved was the Structural Equation Model, SPSS AMOS-26. The results indicated that religiosity contributed significantly to the prediction of leadership attitude. The results corroborated the findings shows that religiosity correlated with leadership education and that it explained some of the leading education. Based on the findings, it was suggested that universities should endeavour to teach rudiments of religiosity model to the students to improve attitudes of leadership, and university counsellors and psychologists should develop programmes to foster emotional intelligence and religiosity.
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