Personality and attitude characteristics of fundamentalist theological students
- 1 August 1963
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 15 (2) , 121-123
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00049536308255485
Abstract
347 theological students from 8 different denominations were administered a questionnaire containing the M.P.I., the Melvin Inventory, Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale and other items. On the basis of their response to a belief item the students were classified as fundamentalist (n=130) or non‐fundamentalist (n=217). It was found that the fundamentalists as a group were higher on the lie scale, more conservative, more certain and more dogmatic than non‐fundamentalists. In discussion of these results it was suggested that fundamentalism represented the religious manifestation of the “closed mind.”Keywords
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