The Affluence of Religious Socialization and Social Connectedness on Young Adults Mental Well-Being

Young people’s social learning and internalization of religious beliefs, attitudes, values, and behavior is known as religious socialization. Often used in research to understand the social patterns emphasizing the formation and course of religious attitudes. Similar to socialization, religious socialization is also a lifelong process with crucial significance for children and youth. Marked by the significant shift from parental to peer influenced social learning the young adults stand for religious understanding lightens and is replaced with contemporary ideologies. Witnessing the shift of parental control and attitudes the young adult’s social connectedness and reciprocity alters affecting one’s mental health and their state of living. This empirical study is influenced by constructivist social network models aimed at understanding the process of religious socialization and its outcome specifically its orientation to mental well-being. Additionally, the study tries to explore the mediating role of social connectedness on the religious social learning and mental well-being of young adults. The study is quantitatively designed by descriptive, cross-sectional, convenient sampling methodology with questionnaire as the tool of data collection among the youth adults in diverse educational settings from select colleges of Tamilnadu, India. The study results display the mediating influence of social connectedness on religious social learning and the mental well-being of young adults. Therefore, preserving a balanced mental well-being is essential for realizing one’s abilities, religious potentials, and social skills for meaningful social survival with the actualization of social control mechanism and its norms, values, and standards. The study results would potentially benefit the individual self, policy makers, institution administrators, parents, and many others in understanding the affluence of religiosity in the social learning process.