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Some Psychological Factors in Religious Conversion
Author(s) -
ROBERTS F. J.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1965.tb00462.x
Subject(s) - neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , faith , psychology , religious belief , scale (ratio) , social psychology , developmental psychology , personality , big five personality traits , theology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
A study was made of forty‐three theological students in order to define the factors which had affected their religious experience, in particular, their acquisition of belief. The influence of age, parental belief and family relationships, guilt, neuroticism and extraversion were considered. Those whose conversion was sudden and towards the faith of their parents were found to have high scores on the MPI neuroticism scale.