Adolescent Anger and Self Esteem According to Different Religious Perspective

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to investigate adolescent's anger and self-esteem according to different religious perspectives.  For this reason, a total of 270 students (male=135 &female=135) were purposively selected as the sample of the present study. They were selected in an equal ratio according to Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist. The instruments used in the study were The Bangla version of the Adolescence Anger Rating Scale (Islam and Chowdhury, 2011) the Self-esteem scale adapted (Sultana and Afrose, 2006) and the Religious Schema Scale (Nahar et al., 2022) were used. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, t-test, and one-way analysis of variance, Pearson product-moment correlation. The results reveal that there was a significant difference between the girl and boy adolescents in terms of anger (t =-2.670, df = 268, p <0.05) and instrumental anger (t =-2.411, df =268, p< 0.05). Additionally, a significant gender difference in adolescent self-esteem (t =9.216, p < 0.05). Religious schema varies according to different religious groups of adolescents (F=3.492, df= 2, p< 0.05). It reveals that Muslim religious adolescents' religious schema is better than followed by the other two religions Hindu and Buddhist. Anger was negatively correlated with both religious schema (r =-0.103) and self-esteem (r =-0.015) but the relationship was not significant. Also, the religious schema was negatively correlated with self-esteem (r = -.046) and the relationship was not significant.

 The Chittagong Univ. J. B. Sci. Vol. 11 (1 & 2): 27-35, 2023