Role of Religious Commitment in Predicting Leadership Skills among Students at Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University

Abstract

A quantitative research aimed to study the religious commitment in predicting leadership skills among students at Abdulrahman Al-Sumait University. Research has shown that the impact of the religious commitment on students is important and that it affects their characteristics, habits, beliefs and their entire lives. The sample of this study includes counseling psychology department students of the arts faculty at Abdulrahman al-Sumait University (85) participants. The sample had been selected randomly. This study assumes that students whom have religious commitment are predicted to have higher degrees of leadership skills than students who are not in a religious commitment. The study selected descriptive methodology because it describes the characteristics of the population and phenomena that is being studied. To achieve this purpose, the researcher used two instruments: the RCI-10 Religious Commitment Inventory-10 and the Leadership Skills Questionnaire. The results obtained show that there is a significant positive relationship between religious commitment and prediction of leadership skills among students at Abdulrahman AlSumait University scales (r=.689, p=.000, two sided) (Table 7). As a conclusion we find that despite the fact that religious commitment plays an important role in promoting leadership skills, it is still considered as a topic to be avoided in our society. Thus this article attempts to underline that religious commitment is a part of personal characteristics of leadership and strongly affects the skills of an individual. This study adds a unique contribution in the domain of religious commitment and prediction of leadership skills.