PERSONALITY AND VALUES OF MUSLIM COLLEGE STUDENTS IN THE THREE STATE INSTITUTIONS IN CENTRAL MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES

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A total of 320 Muslim college students enrolled in three universities and a college in central Mindanao as Islamic Studies and non-Islamic Studies constituted the sample of the study. Of the 320 respondents 78 were enrolled in Islamic Studies course and 242 were enrolled in social science non-Islamic studies courses. The age range of the respondents were mostly those of the usual age for first, second, and third year college students which are 17, 18, 19, and 20, mostly female, and Maguindanaon. Based on the mean responses on the Philippines and the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces of MILF turned to be most bothersome for both Islamic Studies and non-Islamic Studies students. The Muslim College Students are likewise not too tolerant, lax over correcting people, neither they are too jealous, suspicious of interference. They are also not too dependable in practical judgment, neither they are completely absorbed in ideas, fanciful. Suspiciousness and imagination personalities are merely average. They are not too vague and injudicious in their mind, not too lacking self insight, neither are they completely socially aware, possessing calculating mind. They are not too confident, insensitive to people’s approval or disapproval, not caring neither they are completely worrying who cries, easily touched, lonely. Shrewdness and guilt-proneness personalities are average. The Muslim College Students can be viewed also as not too conservative, respecting established ideas, neither they are too radical by being experimenting. Liberal, analytical and free-thinking. They are not too group dependent, a sound follower neither they are completely self-sufficient that is highly resourceful and preferring their individual decisions. Their rebellious and self-sufficiency personalities are just average. They are also not too lacking of control where they are lax, following own urges, and careless of social rule, neither they are completely capable of binding anxiety so that they are being socially precise. They are not too unaffected by tension such that they relaxed, tranquil, unfrustrated, neither they are too tense, and frustrated. Compulsivity and free- floating anxiety personalities were average. Nine Value Dimension of the respondents found out to fall under the Value 4 categories of Islamic values and within the 33.50-4.49 bracket. These are values on: prayer (3.81); helping the poor and the needy (4.48); Deen al Islam (3.90); rights of others (4.14); family (4.01); animal (3.72); nature (3.68); and person’s honor (3.71). Value 4 represents the “Sunnah” or highly recommended values as used in this study. A “Sunnah” (Value 4) value is such that the beholder is rewarded when done and not punishable when omitted.

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