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The empirical relationships between standardized measures of religiosity and personality/mental health
Author(s) -
KALDESTAD EYSTEIN
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1996.tb00652.x
Subject(s) - psychology , religiosity , mental health , personality , clinical psychology , empirical research , social psychology , psychiatry , philosophy , epistemology
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between standardized, factor‐based measures of religiosity and personality/mental health. In a sample of 471 self‐identified Christian subjects, 303 females and 168 males, 79 non‐psychotic psychiatric in‐patients and 392 non‐patients, personal extrinsicness was partially positively correlated with the BCI Obsessive score. In multiple regression analyses some of the factor‐based religious orientation indices related differently to the BCI Oral, Obsessive and Hysterical Scales and the SCL‐90 Global Symptom Index as dependent variables. The religious orientations explained 8.8% of the variance of the BCI Oral Score, 4.2% of the BCI Obsessive score, 3.3% of the BCI Hysterical score, and 12.3% of the SCL‐90 Global Symptom Index score. Of the doctrinal belief and morality indices only Moral conservatism was significantly related to the BCI Hysterical score, and then negatively.