The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between personality, according to Eysenck's theory, and different aspects of religious orientation. To do so, Eysenck's personality questionnaire was administered to 80 randomly chosen subjects (40 men and 40 women). To determine various aspects of religious orientation, an author-made questionnaire was used. Such scale measures 4 different religious orientations including religiosity, religious disorganization, hedonism and religious pretentiousness. The results of the present study showed that there was a significant difference between men and women in the subscales of neuroticism and psychoticism and religious disorganization. Also, an inverse relationship between religious orientation, psychoticism and neuroticism was observed. Furthermore, our results showed demographic variables as predictive variables, along with neuroticism and psychoticism, did not predict religious orientation. Regression analysis indicated that psychoticism and neuroticism were negatively related to religious orientation regardless of the presence of demographic variables.
Bahrami Ehsan, H., & Pournaggash Tehrani, S. (2009). Relationship between Personality Dimensions and Religious Orientation. Journal of Modern Psychological Researches, 4(13), 1-14.
MLA
Hadi Bahrami Ehsan; Saeed Pournaggash Tehrani. "Relationship between Personality Dimensions and Religious Orientation". Journal of Modern Psychological Researches, 4, 13, 2009, 1-14.
HARVARD
Bahrami Ehsan, H., Pournaggash Tehrani, S. (2009). 'Relationship between Personality Dimensions and Religious Orientation', Journal of Modern Psychological Researches, 4(13), pp. 1-14.
VANCOUVER
Bahrami Ehsan, H., Pournaggash Tehrani, S. Relationship between Personality Dimensions and Religious Orientation. Journal of Modern Psychological Researches, 2009; 4(13): 1-14.
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