Personality and Attitude Correlates of Religiosity: A Source of Controversy
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 95 (1) , 63-66
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1977.9915861
Abstract
The Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values and the Brown Modification of the Thouless Test of Religious Orthodoxy were administered to 120 male and female students in introductory psychology. Measures of anxiety, self-esteem, authoritarianism, and humanitarianism were also administered to the Ss in an effort to determine whether the two measures of religiosity would yield different personality and attitude profiles of the "religious" individual. A significant positive correlation was found between authoritarianism and the Thouless Test and between humanitarianism and the Study of Values religious measure. All other correlations involving the two measures of religiosity were found to be nonsignificant. These findings lend support to the notion that using two divergent measures of religiosity does result in the formation of different profiles of the "religious" individual.Keywords
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