Religiosity, self-monitoring and political participation : a research on university students

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Altunsu Sönmez, Özlem

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First of all, this study deals with the religiosity in terms of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity; and investigates whether there is a relationship between the self-monitoring and these types. The important point here is that non-religious individuals were studied under this scope, as well. Another building block of the study is the relationship between religiosity and political participation forms. Just as religiosity, political participation was reviewed from a multi-dimensional point of view and conventional, unconventional and post-modern participation were investigated both in terms of non-religious, intrinsic and extrinsic religious individuals. Likewise, the relationship between political participation and self-monitoring was analyzed, as well. The important point for the study here is that no other study of a similar nature has been found neither in the national nor international literature, and that, therefore, the study will contribute to both in this sense. A questionnaire was conducted on 872 university students. Numerous analyses were conducted in this study in order to reveal the relationship among these concepts. As a result of the study, it was found that the intrinsic religiosity is associated with low-self-monitoring while the extrinsic religiosity is associated with high-self-monitoring. In addition, it was determined that self-monitoring is positively influential on the political participation. In parallel to the relationship of the self-monitoring with the religiosity, it was found out that the extrinsic religious perform more participation in every form of political participation than the intrinsic religious. .

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College students, Personality and politics., Personality and social intelligence., Self-control

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22277

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Ö. Altunsu Sönmez, “ Religiosity, self-monitoring and political participation : a research on university students,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2013.