A Study On Muslim Adolescents' Religiousness In Self-concept

Since Shavelson, Hubner, and Stanton (1976) proposed a multidimensional, hierarchical model of self-concept, researchers have devoted themselves to examine both the hierarchical nature and the multidimensionality of self-concepts in various fields. Evidence has provided strong support for this assumption. Based on thus idea, self-concept is viewed as a kind of the complex multidimensional and hierarchical system or structure in this study, and religiousness naturally becomes of one special domain belonged to the self-concept. In this study, the Muslim adolescents from Hui minority, Dongxiang minority, Baoan minority and Sala minority have participated voluntarily, and a whole class has been investigated as one unit, and questionnaires, interview, scale and experiment have been adopted to explore religiousness in self-concept, including how to taking out religiousness from working self-concept, the compare of importance's evaluations of religiousness with other special domains in self-concept, and the differences on gender and grade, and the correlation between religiousness and values, and the factors contributed to socialization of religiousness. The conclusions are below:(1) The Muslim adolescents who live in the local minority municipality can not explicitly present the strong religiousness.(2) The religiousness of the Muslim adolescents who live in the local minority municipality is the principal domain in their self-concept.(3) The developmental trend of religiousness has differences on gender and grade of the Muslim adolescents who live in the local minority municipality.(4) The religiousness in self-concept of the Muslim adolescents may influence their values partly.(5) In the process of the socialization of religiousness, family, mosque, peers relations and self-behaviors referring to religion are primary factors contributed to socialization, and family plays the key role.