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PERSONAL VALUE SYSTEM AS RELATED TO ANTI-MINORITY ATTITUDE IN MUSLIM STUDENTS OF RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH
By: Noor Muhammad, Md. Abdul Latif
Key Words: Personal value system, anti-minority attitude, prejudice, majority and minority groups, Muslim students, Rajshahi University
JLES-Vol-5-No-P-85-89, December 2010
AbstractRelationships between personal values and anti-minority attitude in a group of 100 Muslim students of Rajshahi University were estimated using adapted Bengali versions of Allport-Vernon-Lindzey study of values and Levinson-Sanford Anti-Semitism scale. The relationships between anti-minority attitude and each of the Spranger’s six values were computed to calculate the co-efficient of correlation between the scores on each of the six value scales and the scores on anti-minority attitude scale. Results show that a significant positive correlation exists between political and economical values and anti-minority attitude (P<0.01) while a significant negative correlation exists between theoretical, aesthetic, social and religious values and anti-minority attitude (P<0.01). For further analyzing the relationships that exists between Spranger’s six values and anti- minority attitude, the distribution of the latter was divided into four quarters and statistical comparisons were made among them on the basis of the scores of each value scale employing t-test. Statistical significant differences in values were found between the low (1st quarter) and high (4th quarter) anti-minority attitude groups, indicating that high anti-minority attitude is dominated by political and economic values, while low anti-minority attitude is dominated by religious, theoretical, aesthetic and social values.
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Manuscript received on 15 September 2010 and revised on 18 January 2011
Noor Muhammad, Md. Abdul Latif
PERSONAL VALUE SYSTEM AS RELATED TO ANTI-MINORITY ATTITUDE IN MUSLIM STUDENTS OF RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, BANGLADESH
JLES-Vol-5-No-P-85-89, December 2010
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