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Muhammad Sami Ur Rehman, Syed Zubair Haider and Najam Ul Kashif 272 Global Social Sciences Review (GSSR) Nurmi (2005) perceived FO as an important skill of any individual to think about his future actions, conceive its meaning in his personal capacity and working with rationality. Wells and Claxton (2002) are of the view that future orientations are the source to improve critical awareness of a variety of demonstrations for the future. When we compare and contrast different interpretations of the future by making use of a variety of broadcasting sources and explore the visions of persons about life in the past, it is helpful for the students to view the pattern of life in the future. This will be helpful for the students to recognize and challenge their own as well as their society’s assumptions about the future. Zhang et.al. (2011) linked FO with academics aiming and consider the role of locus of control, internalization and self-efficiency as an influential mediating factor. Vansteenkiste et.al., (2009) explained that most of the futureoriented teenagers think that their success and modification in their behavior are due to their own efforts and interest to change their life instead of considering the importance of external perceptions and factors which play important role in their behavior formation. Manzi, Vignoles and Regalia (2010) identify that in adolescence period, most individuals attain different progressive capabilities. The main job of this period is to control emotions and manage time distribution, it is considered as a very insane idea, to think in this manner that all worlds’ time is for his or herself. The world is only giving importance to him that everyone here is to take care of his feelings. Moshman (2009) claims that it is very important to convince young ones to perceive the importance of time before getting out from the age of adolescence and to understand that time is running short and society is demanding from them to make their identity before this age. For a better life in the future, education, as well as religiosity, has been considered as the most important source (Peterson & Webb, 2006). It is concluded by different educationists that religious mined individuals spend a better and healthy life as compared to other people and ultimately, they live quality life or maybe live longer (McIntosh & Spilka, 1990). Religion is embedded in the blood of humans, right from the commencement of this universe. The behaviors and thoughts of human beings are always dominated by their religion. Some researchers viewed religion as the structured arrangement of practices, principles, services and symbols (Koeing, Mc Cullough, & Larson, 2001). Religion can affect significantly the beliefs, ethics, and conducts of the individuals (Fam, Waller, & Erdogan, 2004). The tool which can be used for the measurement of the religion of one person is called religiosity. Every individual occupies a certain degree of religiosity (Mariam et al., 2011). Wheeler (1989) has briefly defined religiosity as one’s motivation towards religion. Religiosity is basically the level to which the people of a special religious group are committed and devoted (Essoo & Dibb, 2004). Morgan and Sternk (2010) revealed in their study that religious people play a significant role in developing attitudes towards science and society. Barro and McCleary (2006) have explained a positive relationship between attitude and its effects on science and society. They describe that more the people are educated the stronger is their beliefs about science, society and nature. They have the capacity to rationalize their religious beliefs in this way. In its broader sense, it is found that religiosity is a comprehensive term that is used for the expression of many aspects of religious activity, beliefs and dedication (religious doctrine). Hill and Maltby (2009) have explained the term religiosity in its narrow perspective. They present their view in the words that religiosity is concerned more with how a religious person is and it is less concerned with how a person is while performing religious ceremonies, retelling specific myths and in reviving definite types of myths. Khalek (2010) has also found in this regard that religiosity may be considered the most prominent feature of quality of life among the students. Dalton (1988) stated that religiosity is particularly very important for secondary school students in the process of learning and obtaining experiences. It is due to the fact that secondary school life is the time of their heightened sensitivity about their personal identity, the decision about future life and ideology. In their life, it is a time of wonderful potentiality and vulnerability in their development. It is a great time of thinking about the future when we concern about their purpose, meaning and commitment interaction with the forces of their cognitive development, maturation and social expectations. In order to be prepared to compete for challenges in a global world, all students must be able to think towards the future. Schools should perform their important part in developing the future generation of society. As students are the nation builders and the future leaders of the country so their visions of the future can be marked as an indicator of national leadership. That is why, the main idea of the present research was to investigate the perception of secondary school students (SSS) regarding the effect of religiosity on the FO of Muslim, Christian and Hindu students. Research Methodology In the present research, the descriptive research design was used by the researchers. A research design provides a guideline for the researcher to execute his study in the best possible way and also helps to analyze the subsequent study data (Haider & Qureshi, 2016). Under descriptive research design, the survey is a very important technique Students’ Religiosity as a Predictor of Students’ Future Orientation: Analyzing the Effect on Secondary School Students of Punjab Vol. IV, No. IV (Fall 2019) 273 to collect relevant data on large scale, so in the present study, the survey technique is utilized to collect data from the respondents (Haider & Hussain, 2014).

Students Religiosity as a Predictor of Students Future Orientation: Analyzing the Effect on Secondary School Students of Punjab