Abstract
It is thought that an individual’s level of religiosity can have an effect on other aspects
of a person’s life such as their self-efficacy, stress levels and autonomy levels. This idea was
used for this research with examined the effects of religiosity on stress, self-efficacy and
autonomy among college students. This study used four questionnaires, General self-efficacy
scale, Perceived stress scale, Santa Clara strength of religious faith questionnaire and the
Autonomy-Connectedness scale to assess the four variables within a sample of 100 college
students. It was hypoFinal Year Projected that there would be a relationship between the four variables. It
was found that there was no relationship between the variables. However there was a
significant relationship between stress and autonomy. Author keywords: stress, autonomy, religiosity, self-efficacy, college, students
