Healing Those Who Need Healing: How Religious Practice Interacts with Personality to Affect Social Belonging
Religion affects social cognition but does personality matter? We extracted information about church attendance and personality from a representative national survey (n= 1,483 New Zealand Christians). We found that frequency of church attendance affects felt belongingness but this relationship depen...
| Published in: | Journal for the cognitive science of religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
[2013]
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| In: |
Journal for the cognitive science of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
New Zealand
/ Christian
/ Church attendance
/ Neuroticism
/ Affiliation with
/ Social perception
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality KBS Australia; Oceania |
| Further subjects: | B
Neuroticism
B Non-linearity B Practice B Religion B Cognition B Personality B Social cognition |
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| Summary: | Religion affects social cognition but does personality matter? We extracted information about church attendance and personality from a representative national survey (n= 1,483 New Zealand Christians). We found that frequency of church attendance affects felt belongingness but this relationship depends on levels of neuroticism. Christians who scored low in neuroticism experienced similar levels of felt belongingness, regardless of church attendance. Christians who scored high in neuroticism experienced the greatest social belonging, through frequent religious practice. Modelling these interactions revealed that those high in neuroticism would need to attend church 17.15 times each month to experience the felt belongingness of those low in neuroticism who did not attend church. Rates of religious attendance affect social cognition, but not for all Christians equally. Neuroticism matters. Those who wish to promote religion for social belonging would be wise to consider personality differences. |
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| ISSN: | 2049-7563 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jcsr.v1i1.29 |