The Relationship of Religiosity and Anxiety among University Students: A Case Study at Kunduz University

Abstract

Religiosity is the most important factor in the personal and social well-being of Muslims and provides encouragement, meaning, satisfaction, endurance, and hope in the lives of religious people. Anxiety is a diffuse, unpleasant, vague feeling of unknown origin that occurs in a person and is accompanied by a sense of uncertainty, helplessness, and physiological arousal. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between religiosity and anxiety among university students. This research is a descriptive survey in terms of nature, applied in purpose, and correlational in analysis. The data collection tools were the Cattel Anxiety Scale (1957) and Husain Zareh et al. (2011) Religious Beliefs Questionnaire. The statistical population of this study consisted of all Kunduz University students in the spring term of 2024. The sample size was determined using the Cochran formula with a confidence level of 95% and error of 5% to determine the number of 439 participants, and the data were collected by stratified random sampling. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed using IBM SPSS-28 software. The findings revealed that as religious beliefs increased, anxiety levels tended to decrease, and religiosity had an inverse and significant relationship with anxiety. This means that a 1% increase in religiosity leads to a 0.271% decrease in anxiety.