Individual Religiosity And Its Impact On Affective Commitment In Sharia Banking Sector: Religiosity Support As A Mediator Variable

Individual religiosity is the ability of religion adherents to understand and implement the religion doctrine in the real life. Religiosity level has an impact on attitude and behavior of each people. In working context, religiosity level has an impact on commitment of employees and perception of employees about the organization. The aims of this research are: 1) analyzing the impact of individual religiosity on religiosity supports and affective commitment; 2) analyzing the impact of religiosity support on affective commitment; and 3) analyzing whether religiosity support mediate the relationship between individual religiosity and affective commitment. Quantitative method with explanatory approach was used in this research. Data was collected by distributed 90 questionnaires on two sharia banking in Malang, Indonesia then, 74 questionnaires was used as a sample. Path analysis was used to statistically test the model. The indicators of religiosity support variable was developed by researcher with conducted a separate research i.e. in Mandiri Sharia and Bank Rakyat Indonesia Sharia in Malang, Indonesia before it is used in this research. Factor analysis was used to test the validity of each indicator of religiosity support variable. The result of research revealed that: 1) individual religiosity has a significant impact on religiosity support and affective commitment; 2) religiosity support has a significant impact on affective commitment; and 3) religiosity support mediated the relationship between individual religiosity and affective commitment