Academic Achievement and Its Relationship to Religious Involvement among University Students

Abstract

Abstract :The study aimed to investigate academic achievement and its relationship to religious involvement among university students. Adopting a descriptive design, the researcher drew a sample of 200 male and female students from the colleges of the University of Wasit for the 2024/2025 academic year. Academic achievement was gauged through the students’ final cumulative grades, while religious involvement was measured with Al Ubaydi’s (2010) Religious Involvement Scale, whose psychometric properties (face and construct validity, reliability) were verified by the researcher.

The findings revealed that, in general, the university students did not display a high level of religious involvement, and no statistically significant correlation emerged between academic achievement and religious involvement. This indicates that religious involvement does not exert a clear influence on students’ academic performance; the low level of involvement may stem from social and cultural changes shaping students’ religious orientations. The absence of a relationship also suggests that factors such as intrinsic motivation, the educational environment, or personal skills may have a more decisive impact on academic success.