Students’ Attitude toward the Church on Their Behavioral Intention to Help the Social Action of the Church : Ilocos Region Context

Social action begins in the Church informed by God's Word and empowered by God's spirit. The study resolved the correlation between the cognitive and affective attitudes of the Catholic youth toward the Catholic Church and their behavioural intention to help the social action of the Church in the future. To support the study, related literature and studies were reviewed. A descriptive correlational research design wherein 400 youths. Moreover, validated questionnaires were used and the data were interpreted and analyzed using statistical tools namely Pearson r and weighted mean. The study found that Catholic youth have a very high positive cognitive and affective attitude toward the Catholic Church and their behavioural intention to help the Church is also very high. Further, there is a correlation between the Catholic youth’s cognitive and affective attitude and the behavioural intention to help the social action of the Catholic Church in the future