Religiosity as Mediator between relationship between Academic Motivation and Materialism among Students Universities in Indonesia

Abstract

This study is aimed to discover the materialism mediator that predicts the presence of academic motivation, the religiosity mediator that predicts the presence of academic motivation and the religiosity mediator that predicts the presence of materialism among Minangkabau university students in Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia. This study identified dimensions of materialism that relate to religiosity and academic motivation dimensions of religiosity that relate to materialism and academic motivation and dimensions of academic motivation that relate to religiosity and materialism. The researcher administered the materialistic value scale (MVS) to measure materialism, the religious commitment inventory-10 (RCI-10) to measure the religiosity, and the academic motivation scale (AMS) to measure motivation. It was administered to 382 sample of Minangkabau university students in a government University in West Sumatera. Pearson correlation, multi variable regression analysis, and independent t-test were conducted. Multiple linear regression was employed to predict the presence of academic motivation and materialism. The results displayed that the dimension of religiosity that more relates to academic motivation is the interpersonal religiosity; the dimension of religiosity that more relates to materialism is the intrapersonal religiosity; while the dimension of materialism that more relates to academic motivation is the pursuit of happiness.