Department of Education Leadership and Management, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg, 524 Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, Gauteng.
Department of Psychology, Debre Markos University, 269, Debre Markos, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
BMC Psychol. 2023 Nov 27;11(1):416. doi: 10.1186/s40359-023-01455-1.
The issues of religious practice, healthy lifestyle behavior and academic achievement are global agendas. Most previous research has focused on either one or two of the variables, not three of them (e.g. just the relationship between religious practice and healthy lifestyle behavior). And addressing these three issues, by and large, demands a systemic approach to re-thinking the current level and improving it.
To examine the causal relationship between religious practice, healthy lifestyle behavior, and academic achievement in the case of Debre Markos University (DMU) and Injibara University (IU), Ethiopia.
Four hundred forty students are participated voluntarily using random sampling techniques. To attain this objective, a cross-sectional research method design was used.
The mean scores of students' healthy lifestyle behavior is more than average in all aspects. MANOVA results revealed that batch, ethnicity (region), and the university did not display a statistically significant difference among the composite (or combined) scores of both students' healthy lifestyles and religious practice. However, religious affiliation and gender religious practice and have an effect on religious practice and healthy lifestyle behavior respectively. The correlation output informs that religious practice and healthy lifestyle behavior are positively and significantly correlated with each other. Religious practice also significantly predicted students' healthy lifestyle behavior. Despite this, the academic achievement of students didn't have any relationship with their religious practice and healthy lifestyle behavior.
University students' healthy lifestyle behavior doesn't play an intervening variable in the effect of religious practice on academic achievement. Possible practical implications and recommendations have been forwarded.
宗教实践、健康生活方式行为和学业成绩是全球性的议题。大多数先前的研究都集中在一个或两个变量上，而不是三个变量（例如，只是宗教实践与健康生活方式行为之间的关系）。解决这三个问题，在很大程度上需要系统地重新思考当前的水平并加以改进。
在埃塞俄比亚的德布雷马克罗斯大学（DMU）和因吉巴拉大学（IU）的情况下，检验宗教实践、健康生活方式行为与学业成绩之间的因果关系。
采用随机抽样技术，有 440 名学生自愿参加。为了达到这个目的，采用了横断面研究方法设计。
学生健康生活方式行为的平均得分在各个方面都高于平均水平。MANOVA 结果表明，批次、族裔（地区）和大学在学生健康生活方式和宗教实践的综合（或组合）得分方面没有显示出统计学上的显著差异。然而，宗教信仰和性别宗教实践分别对宗教实践和健康生活方式行为有影响。相关输出表明，宗教实践和健康生活方式行为之间存在正相关且显著相关。宗教实践也显著预测了学生的健康生活方式行为。尽管如此，学生的学业成绩与他们的宗教实践和健康生活方式行为之间没有任何关系。
大学生的健康生活方式行为在宗教实践对学业成绩的影响中不起中介变量的作用。提出了可能的实际影响和建议。
