Amanah and Muslim Identity: Relationships with Religious and Psychological Adjustment in Malaysia

Tekke, Mustafa; Watson, P. J.; Kayadibi, Saim; Chen, Zhuo Job

doi:10.1007/s10943-018-0690-3

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Published: 17 August 2018

Amanah and Muslim Identity: Relationships with Religious and Psychological Adjustment in Malaysia

Mustafa Tekke¹,
P. J. Watson ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-5174²,
Saim Kayadibi³ &
Zhuo Job Chen⁴

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Amanah refers to the accountability of Muslims to their community. In Malaysian Muslim university students (N = 209), an Amanah Scale predicted a stronger sense of identity along with more adaptive religious and psychosocial functioning. Multiple regression analyses identified Accountability to Society as especially influential, but Accountability to Allah exhibited at least some problematic implications. Amanah mediated Identity linkages with some measures of religious and psychological adjustment, but also suppressed Identity relationships with greater self-knowledge and lower anxiety. These data confirmed the importance of communal commitments in Muslim mental health, suggested that accountability may have limited liabilities as well as more obvious psychosocial advantages, and identified possible complexities in the assessment of Accountability to Allah.

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Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey
Mustafa Tekke
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, #2803 350 Holt Hall – 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN, 37403, USA
P. J. Watson
Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University, Gombak, Malaysia
Saim Kayadibi
Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Zhuo Job Chen

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Tekke, M., Watson, P.J., Kayadibi, S. et al. Amanah and Muslim Identity: Relationships with Religious and Psychological Adjustment in Malaysia. J Relig Health 59, 891–904 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0690-3

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Published: 17 August 2018
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Keywords

Amanah
Identity
Muslim personality adjustment
Malaysia
Religious orientations