RT Article
T1 Motives for Participating in the Religious Experience
JF Journal for the scientific study of religion
VO 7
IS 2
SP 241
OP 251
A1 Gorlow, Leon
A1 Schroeder, Harold E.
A2 Schroeder, Harold E.
LA English
YR 1968
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1667828266
AB A more or less exhaustive set of reasons for participating in religious activities was identified by respondents from a wide variety of religious denominations. These reasons were cast into a standard form and presented as a Q-sort to 100 undergraduates who rated each reason's "importance to me." A principal components inverse factor analysis yielded seven interpretable clusters of people (types): the humble servants of God; the self-improvers; the family guidance seekers; the moralists; the God-seekers; the socially-oriented servants of God; the religious eggheads. These clusters correspond to dimensions found in other studies. Degree of membership in clusters related meaningfully to personal, social and demographic variables.
K1 Catholicism
K1 Demography
K1 Factor analysis
K1 Liberal arts education
K1 Morality
K1 Q sort
K1 Religious experience philosophy
K1 Religious Freedom
K1 Sharing
K1 Statistical variance
DO 10.2307/1384632