Relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and personality: A multivariate analysis
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Relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and personality: a multivariate analysis
Religion has had a profound impact on human existence and on virtually all of our lives. In a poll of 50,000 respondents from 60 countries, the Gallup International Millennium Survey revealed that 87% of individuals ascribe to some religion (Egbert, Mickley, & Coeling, 2004). In North America, 62% of respondents believe there is a God, 24% believe there is some form of spirit or life force, and 83% of respondents who believe there is a God award Him great importance in their lives. Whether
Participants
Undergraduates (n = 230) enrolled in psychology courses at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), and 80 family members of USM undergraduates, completed the measures listed below. Family members were recruited by USM undergraduates who sought additional course credit. Both populations were sampled to acquire participants with a broad range of ages. Each participant’s SES was measured according to the Hollingshead (1975) socio economic status categories. When gathering data from students,
Religiosity, spirituality, and demographic variables
Mean differences in the religiosity and spirituality variables across gender and ethnicity were examined using t-tests. Results indicated that women scored significantly higher than men on the Intrinsic orientation and African–Americans scored significantly higher than Caucasians on the Extrinsic and Intrinsic orientations. For age and SES, Pearson correlations were computed to determine their relationships with the religiosity and spirituality variables. The only statistically significant
Discussion
The goal of the current study was to further delineate the relationships between spirituality, religiosity, and personality. Multivariate methods were used because they are conspicuously absent from the current literature and such methods help to address Thoresen and Harris (2002) concerns that univariate analyses may be too simplistic when studying correlates of religiosity and spirituality. In general, results from the current study suggested strong relationships between religiosity,
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