TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality predictors of religious orientation among protestant, catholic, and non-religious college students
AU - Hutchinson, Geoffrey T.
AU - Patock-Peckham, Julie
AU - Cheong, Jee Won
AU - Nagoshi, Craig T.
PY - 1998/2
Y1 - 1998/2
N2 - A total of 249 college students completed a questionnaire regarding their Religious Affiliation, Intrinsic/extrinsic Religiosity, Impulsiveness, Venturesomeness, Irrational Beliefs, Neuroticism, Depression, Obsession Proneness, Irrational Beliefs, and Positive and Negative stress. The subsample used included 214 students who indicated they were non-religious, Protestant, or Catholic. Religious affiliation was found to be a moderator of the correlations of religious ego-involvement, i.e. intrinsic religious motivation, with various personality variables. Intrinsic religiosity was found to be predictive of proneness to obsessive-compulsive cognitions/behaviors among Catholics, but not among non-religious and Protestant subjects. These results were discussed in terms of ego-involvement with the particular social norms espoused by different religious affiliations.
AB - A total of 249 college students completed a questionnaire regarding their Religious Affiliation, Intrinsic/extrinsic Religiosity, Impulsiveness, Venturesomeness, Irrational Beliefs, Neuroticism, Depression, Obsession Proneness, Irrational Beliefs, and Positive and Negative stress. The subsample used included 214 students who indicated they were non-religious, Protestant, or Catholic. Religious affiliation was found to be a moderator of the correlations of religious ego-involvement, i.e. intrinsic religious motivation, with various personality variables. Intrinsic religiosity was found to be predictive of proneness to obsessive-compulsive cognitions/behaviors among Catholics, but not among non-religious and Protestant subjects. These results were discussed in terms of ego-involvement with the particular social norms espoused by different religious affiliations.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00164-5
DO - 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00164-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031991674
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 24
SP - 145
EP - 151
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 2
ER -