The Ordinal Regression to Analyze Radical Intention of Muslim Indonesian Students through Personality Type and Tolerance Approach

Abstract

This paper presents a result of research about the student’s radical intention related to their tolerance and personality type. The main research variable that is radical intention has a psychological construct that is theoretically built with a social approach and political point of view. As a big country, Indonesia has various pluralism i.e ethnic and religion, so that it requires a high tolerance attitude to live in a harmony. Students as the next generation and important elements in society are expected to avoid intolerance. The research subjects were 175 students from an Islamic university in Indonesia. The data were analyzed with Ordinal Regression which intention of radicalism (ordinal) as the dependent variable, personality type (nominal), and tolerance attitude level (ordinal) as independent variables. The majority of these students have good moral values so they can tolerate the difference. From the regression analysis, only a tolerance attitude has a significant effect on radicalism intention.