Study of Self-Actualization in Relation to Attitude Towards Religion

Self-actualization indicates highest motivated individuals, characterized by the realization of one's full potential, autonomy, and meaningful engagement with life. It is person's desire for self-improvement or actual use of potentials, talents and capacities. An Attitude towards religion can be define as one's beliefs, acceptance, like or dislike, feelings or experience towards religious issues. Religious attitudes are open mindedness and objectivity but this not always essential to our religious nature. Main objective of the Study was the relationship between Self-Actualization and Attitude of Pupil Teachers towards religion. Hypothesis was ‘there will be no relationship between self-actualization and Attitude of pupil teachers towards religion. ‘Survey method used and sample through randomization of 192 pupil teachers belonging to Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala and Ludhiana dist. of Punjab, were taken tools of the study were 1. Sharma's self-actualization inventory 1971, 2. Ojha's Attitude Scale (1971) Statistical Techniques used- Co-efficient of correlation and graphic representation of the data were implied. The result indicates that the relationship between self-actualization and attitude towards religion of pupil teachers is significant but very low correlate to each other while Reserved and unreserved Pupil Teacher of relation between both variables is not significant and negligible correlate to each other, the relationship between Self-actualization and attitude towards religion of Rural pupil teacher is significant but very low correlate to each other while the relationship between Self-actualization and attitude towards religion of unreserved pupil teacher is not significant and negligible correlate to each other, the relationship between Self-actualization and Attitude Towards religion is significant but very low correlate to each other. The knowledge provided by present research can be used by researchers, educational planners, teachers, psychologists, guidance workers, policy makers, teacher educators and parents in varied ways: study can also be helpful to school authorities-principals and teachers develop the teaching strategies and approaches which produce the self-actualization in students in their tests, examination, practical's, difficult subjects.