RT Article
T1 Religious-Commitment Signaling and Impression Management amongst Pentecostals: Relationships to Salivary Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase
JF Journal of cognition and culture
VO 15
IS 3/4
SP 299
OP 319
A1 Lynn, Christopher Dana
A1 Paris, Jason Joseph
A1 Frye, Cheryl Anne
A2 Schell, Lawrence M.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1561985694
AB Religious-commitment signaling is thought to indicate willingness to cooperate with a religious group. It follows that a desire to signal affiliation and reap concomitant benefits would lend itself to acting in socially desirable ways. Success or failure in such areas, especially where there is conscious intent, should correspond to proximal indicators of well-being, such as psychosocial or biological stress. To test this model, we assessed religious-commitment signaling and socially desirable responding among a sample of Pentecostals with respect to salivary biomarkers of stress and arousal. Results indicate that cortisol levels on worship and non-worship days were significantly influenced by religious-commitment signaling when moderated by impression management, a conscious form of socially desirable responding. No significant influences on salivary alpha-amylase were detected. These findings are important for understanding how religious-commitment signaling mechanisms may influence stress response when moderated by socially desirable responding and the role of communal orientation to psychosocial health.
K1 alpha-amylase : cortisol : impression management : Pentecostalism : religious-commitment signaling : stress
DO 10.1163/15685373-12342152