Students’ attitude toward the church on their behavioral intention to help the social action of the church: Ilocos region context

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the correlation between the cognitive and affective attitudes of the Catholic youth toward the Catholic Church and their behavioural intention to help the Social action of the Church in the future. To support the study, related literature and studies were reviewed. The study used a descriptive correlational research design. 400 youths were taken as respondents to the survey. To gather the data, validated questionnaires were used and the data were interpreted and analyzed using statistical tools such as Pearson r and Weighted mean. The study found that Catholic youth have a very high positive cognitive and affective attitude toward the Catholic Church and their behavioural intention to help the Church is also very high. Further, there is a correlation between the Catholic Youth’s cognitive and affective attitude and the behavioural intention to help the social action of the Catholic Church in the future.