Religious Motivation in the Elderly: A French-Canadian Replication and an Extension
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 130 (1) , 53-59
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1990.9922933
Abstract
To clarify further the relationship between religiosity and personal adjustment, four kinds of religious motivation were distinguished: intrinsic, self-determined extrinsic, non-self-determined extrinsic, and amotivation. A study of 176 French-Canadian elderly people found that these four kinds of religious motivation can be reliably measured, that they display a pattern of intercorrelations consistent with theoretical predictions, and that they are related to other important aspects of the lives of these elderly people in a theoretically meaningful manner.Keywords
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