The attitudes of youth towards non religious thinking
Sikap belia terhadap pemikiran tidak beragama
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Malaysia, Belia, Sikap, Pemikiran, AgamaAbstract
This paper discusses the attitudes of youth towards non-religious thinking. This study is a pilot study involving 43 youths at one university, in Malaysia. This study aims to review the youth’s background of unbelief thinking and to analyze their attitudes towards it. The design of this study quantitative research by using questionnaires that had been built by a group of researchers and its content was approved by a panel of experts. Reliability of the instrument based on the Cronbach Alpha, which reached the high level of α = 0.81. The results show the appreciation of youth is on a good level with the majority of youth concerned about Islam and interest to join in religious programs. The findings also showed that the attitude of the youth towards irreligious thought in the low mean score (mean = 1.28, sd = 0.31). However, there are only a few items that showed a negative attitude towards the idea of irreligious thought. The findings clearly show that low levels of youth attitudes toward non-religious thinking is not influenced by their backgrounds but in the aspect of age.
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